I'm maintaining a small open source mobile app. The app is fairly popular and well liked.
However, there are also a lot of people who just send comments to the app store that the app is useless without feature x or is total crap if I don't change something.
Nowadays, I get anxiety when I just think that I should go to the app store and read the latest comments.
I understand that open source is about community and things should be made together. However, I haven't really got any contributions except few language translations.
I'm getting tired of the app and sadly it will be the last open source software I'll release under my own name. From now on, I'll just dump the source to somewhere and forget about it. Or keep the source closed.
Writing software, even open source software, should be fun. It shouldn't mean that one person writes everything and others complain that it isn't enough.
If you get anxiety when you to have read what others think about your app, your problems are somewhere else.. mostly taking into account that you're uploading it to the app store, a place where almost nobody knows what open source is and they don't even care.
The app store problem is also there in various review sites. For instance, my plotting app gets quite a few satisfied users, albeit very few external contributions, but it get some extremely lousy reviews from people who've run it for two minutes and not read the documentation, particularly on Mac websites, e.g. https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/21029/veusz (a site where I didn't even upload it).
However, there are also a lot of people who just send comments to the app store that the app is useless without feature x or is total crap if I don't change something.
Nowadays, I get anxiety when I just think that I should go to the app store and read the latest comments.
I understand that open source is about community and things should be made together. However, I haven't really got any contributions except few language translations.
I'm getting tired of the app and sadly it will be the last open source software I'll release under my own name. From now on, I'll just dump the source to somewhere and forget about it. Or keep the source closed.
Writing software, even open source software, should be fun. It shouldn't mean that one person writes everything and others complain that it isn't enough.