The Open Source Baggage We Carry
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Argues that emotional ownership of open source causes burnout and brittle projects and offers concrete fixes: commit comprehensive docs so knowledge leaves the head and stays in the repo, automate releases and routine tasks to remove single-person choke points, cultivate and mentor maintainers to lower the bus factor, publish an explicit succession plan and declare firm office-hour boundaries, then schedule regular offline breaks; these steps aim to keep projects healthy while letting contributors step back without breaking anything.
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