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title: About maintenance
description: ""
lang: en
date: 2026-05-02T02:59:00.000Z
tags:
  - Meta
---

May 2, 2026

This post sets some clear expectations regarding projects I develop and
maintain.

Let's call it Commitment Pledge.

In short, I don't abandon shit easily and appreciate people's trust.

## Lifecycle & Exit Policy

### Transparent Status

The repository will clearly display its maintenance state via standard badges
(e.g., "Maintained", "Archived", "Open For Adoption", "Sundown").

### Graceful Exit

If I reach burnout, lose interest, or can no longer maintain the codebase, the
project will not be silently abandoned. I will update the project's lifecycle
badge to "Sundown" or "Open For Adoption" and post instructions about forking or
hand-off with at least a month of advance warning.

### Deadman Switch

If a man or an animal or a huge meteor gets the best of me and I become dead,
designated person will deal with inheritance and hand-offs.

## Integrity, security, privacy

### No Protestware or Sabotage

Code updates will strictly serve the project's stated technical function. I will
never intentionally inject malware, protestware, console activism, political
popups, or code designed to break environments. Although, I will openly and
transparently make your life harder if you support evil shit.

### No Unsolicited Telemetry

I will not include tracking, phone-home features, user profiling, or analytics
without explicit, transparent, opt-in consent. Not sure if I do it even with
consent.

### No Relicensing Rug-Pulls

Published releases will remain open source. Future releases will not be
retroactively switched to restrictive, commercial, or non-OSI-approved
source-available licenses.

### No Package Deletions

Published releases or package registry artifacts will not be arbitrarily deleted
or yanked, preventing broken downstream builds, except when required for
critical security or legal reasons.

### Transparent Stewardship Transfers

Administrative control, repo ownership, and package-publishing keys will never
be sold or handed off to unverified third parties. Any transfer of
maintainership will be publicly announced and verified.

## Obvious

### Right to Refuse

I reserve the right to decline features, code contributions, or pull requests
that do not align with the project’s scope, design philosophy, or maintenance
bandwidth.

### No Obligation of Service

Maintenance is conducted on a best-effort basis; I am not an on-call support
team or corporate service desk (but we can discuss it)

I do it because I like making and sharing stuff I find useful.

## Tags

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