On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote:
> What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer > > https://nolanlawson.com/2017/03/05/what-it-feels-like-to-be- > an-open-source-maintainer/ > > > > Thanks Tilman for an excellent tip, but much more for the work that you and others do here. I know what it's like - have been developing Open Source for 20 years - and the maintenance is a huge effort. (Today I have spent most of the day revising pom version numbers, triaging issues, obsolete tests, etc.). I rely 100% on PDFBox and am close to releasing a tools to extract tables from certain types of documents. (I haven't even got around to migrating to PDFBox 2 :-). I also hope to release a diagram analyser in the fairly near future. (Of course help is always welcomed :-) The commentary on the article is good - it is highly supportive and urges maintainers not to be overwhelmed by unattended issues. A long list of issues is a tribute to how valuable the software is. P. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader Emeritus in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dept. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
