Why do package maintainers stop answering and go silent?!

I've waited for more than two weeks on acceptance on my PR, the maintainers hasn't been active and I've even notified them of my worries.. But so far no activity.

Why the fuck does a package like date-fns have maintainers that doesn't answer? Furthermore, I can see one of them making private contributions on Github..

I need this package to help on another package to finish my project 😭

Open Source Burnout: https://nolanlawson.com/2017/03/...

@Fast-Nop I'm not done yet, but I will read it thoroughly.. It makes a lot of sense.

Most of these points are also a reason why I'm venting here instead of on another issue.

Mostly, I've been actively halping other people in the repo - I always try to before issuing my own things. I can only imagine how tiresome it is over longer periods of time.

But they were writing with me and others, and we were figuring things out - then suddenly, they stopped being active.

I just want to help improve their repo and are providing everything myself. I'm even suggesting that a bunch of work doesn't need to be done.

First I thought it was a vacation but now it's almost the entire month... And the project has momentum and are in an active v2 alpha stage. This weirds me out, as it seems very sudden to go silent, and that's while they're active on private repos

@Kandelborg maybe too much of everything, and this project is not a priority. If it's an unpaid side project for them, that's relatable.

@Fast-Nop Try going to date-fns.org - it's not an unpaid job. It's also a key feature for general webapps.

I agree 100% with you. But this still seems a bit odd to me

You don't need to wait for owner, you can use your fork, or make release for yourself, use in your project and when owner accept your PR and release new version then use that

@stackiox That's my plan, I've also been busy with other things in the meanwhile to give them some time. I already use my own modified version with link. But it's still weird 🤔

I was just trying to rant 😊

Not everyone can/wants to work for free all the time. Also vacations and stuff

@musician I agree. I've discussed my standpoint in the comments above.