Feeling the burn: When open source developers decide to take a break

Opinion If you want to see the definition of "workaholic," you can't do better than to look at your typical senior open source developer or maintainer. I should know, I'm a workaholic too. I know my kind.

That's why a recent Bluesky discussion thread caught my eye. The npmx team, who are working on a registry browser for the Node Package Manager (NPM), Node.js's default package manager, announced they were taking a week off to recharge.

Then, if you can believe it, Anthony Fu, an open source developer and maintainer, had the nerve to say: "OSS [open source software] is a long-playing game, if not forever. But we are people behind those projects, and we need good rest and balance to keep things sustainable. I am super happy to see this move and looking forward to seeing how it could change how OSS works for ...