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Sorry everybody, I failed with you 😔 #1634
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Hi everybody,
I really want to ask sorry to everyone and say that maybe I failed with the community, but has an explanation.
In the last year, I can't give any support here. I really know that there a lot of people using Docz as a dependency on a lot of projects and this was choking me a lot, every day that I spent without being able to work here was a painful moment for me. But unfortunately was hard times and I want to explain this to you.
When I had the idea to work on Docz I was working for a company here in Brazil and in order to develop it, I need to wake up every day 3 hours earlier and go to bed 3 hours later. So I worked a lot with full energy to create this project and was awesome, really awesome. I could have a lot of opportunities because of it, could change my work, start to work to other companies and was pretty good times.
But as the project grew, a lot of demand was appearing as well and that's the bad part of the journey. Without victimism, I need to be honest here: maintaining an open-source is something very hard, really hard. When the project starts to have a lot of people using it, it's more complicated yet. People want a lot of things from you and your project, big companies are using the project and need a lot of things as well from it in order to keep their projects healthy, but in most of the cases this is a talk in just one way. There are more people interest in have things from you, than help! And this crashed me 😕
So, after a time working a lot here and on my business, I was with my healthy compromised and needed to choose between "keep my open source project" or "keep my mental and physical health". And for me the choice was very clear, I choose me. This gave a very bad way to the project that stays without people to maintain it. For a long @rakannimer helped me a lot with this (thanks a lot for this), but unfortunately, after few months he couldn't help anymore and the projects stay on stand-by since this.
But... 😍 Now I'll try to put it back on the trails again.
Now I better and with time to spent and help the project to grow and be healthy again. So, if you want to help me on this journey, I really appreciate it and your help will be very useful.
For people that are still using Docz and have bugs and issues, I ask to be a little be patient. I'll do my best to update and fix all the things in the project, but maybe this could spent few weeks.
So, I think that is it, thanks a lot all people and again, sorry :)