Open Source Good Will Hunting

"Running a successful open source project is just Good Will Hunting in reverse, where you start out as a respected genius and end up being a janitor who gets into fights"

A tweet compares maintaining a successful open-source project to the film Good Will Hunting in reverse: instead of starting as a janitor and revealing genius, you begin as a respected programmer and eventually become an exhausted, combative janitor. It is a self-deprecating joke about burnout and the chaotic social burden of open-source maintenance. EN: A tweet compares maintaining a successful open-source project to the film Good Will Hunting in reverse: instead of starting as a janitor and revealing genius, you begin as a respected programmer and eventually become an exhausted, combative janitor. It is a self-deprecating joke about burnout and the chaotic social burden of open-source maintenance.

• @profunctor_io / 5396 2020-09-18