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Should we open source it?

Should we open source it?“We did in 2009. Issue #4 is still open.”Ruth Lindqvist, The Maintainer

💡 WHY RUTH IS RIGHT

Open-sourcing is the easy part; maintaining is the job. Every public project accumulates issues, pull requests, security reports and questions from people who depend on it, and those do not stop when the team that published it moves on. The 2009 repository still gets bug reports from companies running it in production. Before publishing, decide who answers in year three, or plan an honest archive with a clear notice.

✅ RIGHT WHEN

The team is excited about the launch and has not named a long-term maintainer.

🚩 TOO FAR WHEN

Nothing is ever published, because every repo might one day have an issue #4.

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