> will you keep maintaining it if there is no incentive for you in the process?
Speaking personally, Datasette is the first project I've worked on in my entire career where I'm confident that I would be delighted if I was still working on it in 10-15 years time.
The space it operates in - analyzing, exploring and publishing data about the world we live in - has completely limitless appeal to me. Every project I've ever cared about can be attached to it, especially given the plugin architecture which supports me trying out all kinds of weird and interesting applications for the core technology.
If I can't make it work financially it can go back to being a side-project for me. I'm confident the financial side of it can work though.
> Speaking personally, Datasette is the first project I've worked on in my entire career where I'm confident that I would be delighted if I was still working on it in 10-15 years time.
I feel the same way about cloud custodian and starting stacklet, but I also put stuff into a foundation, so that it has proper survivability beyond the org, irrespective of the org's decisions (Ala hashicorp), and true survivability and impact on an oss project means getting past individual contributor bus factor.
> Speaking personally, Datasette is the first project I've worked on in my entire career where I'm confident that I would be delighted if I was still working on it in 10-15 years time.
That's a bus factor of 1?
You know what's more cool though? A 100 years: https://archive.is/qnWWX (didn't work out all that well for Evernote, regardless). I'm sorry but this script has been sequel'd over again and again. May be, just may be, you're a unicorn (:
Speaking personally, Datasette is the first project I've worked on in my entire career where I'm confident that I would be delighted if I was still working on it in 10-15 years time.
The space it operates in - analyzing, exploring and publishing data about the world we live in - has completely limitless appeal to me. Every project I've ever cared about can be attached to it, especially given the plugin architecture which supports me trying out all kinds of weird and interesting applications for the core technology.
If I can't make it work financially it can go back to being a side-project for me. I'm confident the financial side of it can work though.