Why I'm Closing Your GitHub Issue
summary
Maintains many projects and reports each app pulling in 200 ruby gems and 900 npm packages, so issue noise becomes a second job and leads to burnout. Stated rules: ask requesters to open PRs, close stale feature requests, refuse to write missing tests or convert the codebase to another language, and link willing forks instead of adding unsupported integrations. Demonstrates with a terminal demo and advertises anpoli as a working server‑side JS framework.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 1:25Reasons To Start an Open Source Project
- 4:24The Dark Zone
- 12:15Turbo Links 5
- 12:49Windows Phone Support
- 13:07Plans To Support Windows
- 18:26Pull Request Attached
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