My PR has been waiting a year, or the exponential curve behind open source backlogs

What a queuing theory book says about why open source contributions sit for over a year

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Reading this confirms that while open source is great as a movement, it’s tiresome as a contributor and hellish as a maintainer. Releasing an open source library project is the easiest part, but as this article illustrates, maintenance is the hard part.

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