As the author of the post being linked to, I just wanted to say thanks for all the kind words being said in this thread that are directed at me. For those that are curious, I'm still contributing to open source (I'm actually doing some on my vacation, but it's stuff I want to work on so it's all good). :)
I know the tone is rather dark here in the comments due to the fact that project maintainers are coming forward and saying how they end up suffering in a similar way as I have. But acknowledgment is the first step in dealing with a problem. My hope is we as an overall community of open source can come to terms with the problem at hand and start to develop solutions. (and if anyone cares, my current thinking on potential solutions all rely around improving our communication tools, but that's probably for another blog post :) ).
I know the tone is rather dark here in the comments due to the fact that project maintainers are coming forward and saying how they end up suffering in a similar way as I have. But acknowledgment is the first step in dealing with a problem. My hope is we as an overall community of open source can come to terms with the problem at hand and start to develop solutions. (and if anyone cares, my current thinking on potential solutions all rely around improving our communication tools, but that's probably for another blog post :) ).