<story><title>Free software hijacked Philip Hazel&apos;s life</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/978463/608c876c1153fd31/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>arp242</author><text>Connecting qualified would-be maintainers with projects looking for a maintainer is a tricky problem. Who here even knew PCRE2 was looking for a new maintainer?&lt;p&gt;I took over some fairly widely used Go projects, but only &lt;i&gt;after&lt;/i&gt; they were archived. I had no idea they were looking for someone to maintain it.&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s a bit of a catch-22 here:&lt;p&gt;- If a project is already well-maintained then no one really needs to contribute anything.&lt;p&gt;- If a project is poorly maintained due to lack of interest or time, then this will also discourage contributions – the first think I check before contributing is whether previous PRs are actually getting merged.&lt;p&gt;For larger projects where there&amp;#x27;s always something to do, like Exim, this usually isn&amp;#x27;t a big issue. But for smaller more narrowly scoped projects like PCRE2 this is more of an issue. I&amp;#x27;m not surprised he&amp;#x27;s having a harder time with PCRE2.</text></comment>
<story><title>Free software hijacked Philip Hazel&apos;s life</title><url>https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/978463/608c876c1153fd31/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>throw0101c</author><text>Not mention of the music software:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Hazel is also known for his typesetting software, in particular &amp;quot;Philip&amp;#x27;s Music Writer&amp;quot;,[5][6] as well as programs to turn a simple markup into a subset of DocBook XML for use in the Exim manual, and to produce PostScript from this XML.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Philip_Hazel&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Philip_Hazel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Philip%27s_Music_Writer&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Philip%27s_Music_Writer&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>