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When open source responsibility becomes overwhelming

I've been contributing to this open source project for three years and the maintainer just burned out and quit and now everyone is looking at me to take over but I already work sixty hours a week at my day job.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The natural flow of leadership in collaborative spaces often moves toward those who resist it most.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Open source as philosophy?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.