Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
Your favorite apps run on code maintained by exhausted volunteers. The databases powering your company? Built by developers working double shifts. Those JavaScript frameworks everyone depends on? Often shepherded by a single person, unpaid, drowning in demands.A new report reveals just how bad things have gotten. Sentry funded this research through their Open Source Pledge initiative. Miranda Heath, a psychologist and PhD student at The University of Edinburgh, conducted the study.She reviewed academic literature, analyzed 57 community materials, and talked to seven OSS developers directly. Some had burned out. Others managed to avoid it. Some walked away entirely.Her findings track with open source infrastructure breaking down. The pressure points are nearly identical.Before we…
