Shorewall Developer Tom Eastep Quits

Flaming Foobar writes "Tom Eastep has announced that he is quitting all development and support of my favorite iptables front-end, Shorewall. In his e-mail to the Shorewall Users mailing list he states that 'just cannot deal with the support and documentation frustration any more -- support, the documentation and the web site consume an order of magnitude more of my time than does Shorewall development.' I can't help but wonder if this could happen to more OSS projects in the future - will people get tired of donating huge chunks of their life to free software?"

Comments

Re:Flaming Foobar

[bsartist]

You missed an important part: As a professional software developer, a great deal of your time will be spent getting paid to support, fix, and document code written by someone else.

Re:Perhaps it was lack of incentive

[dabrepus]

Google Answers does this.