The project started as a weekend fix for a personal annoyance. It now ships in operating system images and is downloaded tens of millions of times a month. The maintainers work on it part-time, review every patch themselves and decline most feature requests.
Keeping it small
Scope discipline keeps the codebase readable and the bug count low. Sponsorship covers infrastructure and a little more. The maintainers say the biggest risk is burnout, and the fix is to do less, not more.
Key takeaways
- Tens of millions of downloads per month
- Most feature requests are declined
- Burnout prevention means scope control
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