[Themaintainers] Open Source Software: What makes maintenance something people do ?

[Bastien]

jan <dittrich.c.jan at gmail.com> writes:

> I thus wonder how and why they continue to maintain in the face that
> a lot of the openly celebrated activities are somewhere else.

In my case (being a FLOSS maintainer for ~10 years), my motivation
evolved from

(1) a moral sense of giving back to other FLOSS maintainers
(2) the mere fun of being a maintainer (and decide things)
(3) a certain sense of pride

to 

(1) the moral sense of giving back (still important)
(2) the moral sense of social commitment to the community

-- 
 Bastien