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1. Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 02:49:35 JST Nolan

   New blog post: "Retiring Pinafore" https://nolanlawson.com/2023/01/09/retiring-pinafore/

   Probably not going to surprise anyone, but I'm stepping back from Pinafore. Thanks to everyone who followed along with this project over the years!

   • Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 16:25:25 JST Nolan

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     • smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)
     • Baldur Bjarnason

     @smallcircles I'm not sure though that it's so easy to pass on projects to new maintainers. As @baldur says in "Out of the Software Crisis":

     "Software is a temporary garden whose fate is inextricably intertwined with its gardeners. […] What keeps the software alive are the programmers who have an accurate mental model (theory) of how it is built and works."

     https://softwarecrisis.baldurbjarnason.com/

   • Nolan (nolan@toot.cafe)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 16:25:26 JST Nolan

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     • smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)

     @smallcircles This sounds like an accurate writeup. And yes I do have feelings of loss, but I also feel like I can 1) embrace impermanence, and 2) focus on other enduring outcomes: blog posts, learnings, influence, etc.

     And yes, maybe I could have nurtured a community instead of mostly going solo, sure.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊) (smallcircles@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 16:25:27 JST smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)

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     • Nick
     • David Sterry

     A nice retrospective you wrote @nolan and thank you for all the hard work on #Pinafore, a great app.

     I am involved in organizing #SocialCoding movement as a crowdsourced "Knowledge Garden", and wrote a forum topic on the dynamic I gleaned from your retrospective, which is a very common Challenge in #FOSS projects.

     https://discuss.coding.social/t/foss-dynamics-from-joy-of-coding-to-duty-and-burdens/234

     @nickcolley @weex

   • smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊) (smallcircles@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 16:25:28 JST smallcircles (Humanity Now 🕊)

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     • Nick
     • David Sterry

     @nickcolley @nolan

     cc @weex https://lemmy.ml/post/700339

   • Nick (nickcolley@toot.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 16:25:32 JST Nick

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     @nolan I'd be interested in continuing the project on the accessibility / UI side of things how would you feel about me making a fork if I gave it a different name and worked with you to give clear attribution?

     Perhaps better for me to learn the hard way though and do my own thing.

   • Nick (nickcolley@toot.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 16:25:33 JST Nick

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     @nolan makes sense mate. Really happy you're prioritising your mental and happiness.