Mark Stosberg on Nostr: Sometimes the role of an #opensource maintainer is to understand when your project is ...

Sometimes the role of an #opensource maintainer is to understand when your project is mature and say "no" to most feature requests because the extra complexity isn't worth it.

One recurring request for a popular config module is hot config file reloading, a feature we've rejected many times.

This was today's response explaining why you might not want that feature and why we are rejecting it again:

https://github.com/node-config/node-config/issues/781#issuecomment-2573737173

What's your take: Do you prefer immutable configs?

#configuration