While this summary is in German, the original report linked in there is in English.
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And what are the interesting outcomes ?
Interesting article, some parts are recognisable. But I also think the openHAB community is strong and a little different then the projects this article is about.
AFAIK no maintainer makes a living of openHAB for example.
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I agree, and I would like to add that especially for bindings there is (at least in my feeling) much contribution from the community and not only from the add-on maintainers.
On the UI side or openhab-js side however itâs mainly myself contributing code, for openhab-js this js no real problem as I think the library is in a pretty good state, and changes are nowadays mainly to support new core features.
For the UI, it would be nice to get more contributors on it, as there is much to do.
Report quoted in article: 2024 State of The Open Source Maintainer Report | Tidelift.
There are many more stories of âlife at open source contributorâ and how it ended. Few I collected over past 3 years below.
core-js âFree open-source software is fundamentally brokenâ
@chrisdutz post about his involvement in plc4x: blog/plc4x/free-trial-expired.adoc at main · chrisdutz/blog · GitHub.
All in all, its not an easy life. Especially if you expect to get money out of it.
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