Always be Closing

1 · Bozhidar Batsov · May 9, 2019, midnight
One of the biggest mistakes that an open-source project maintainer can do is to allow the backlog of their projects to grow to a size where it’s unmanageable. That something I’ve seen many times and it always happens in more or less the same fashion, and leads to more or less the same result. You start a small personal project driven by your own interests and needs. The scope of the project is tiny at the time - just a handful of features, no plans for world domination. At some point the project...