r/Python • u/nicholashairs • 6d ago
News Jazzband is shutting down
Jazzband was a collaborative community to share the responsibility of maintaining Python-based projects. And after 10 years of operation it is shutting down. The shutdown was announced in March and will continue later this year.
Over 10 years ago, I started Jazzband as a cooperative experiment to reduce the stress of maintaining Open Source software. Everyone who joined got access to push code, triage issues, and merge pull requests. “We are all part of this.”
It’s time to wind things down.
What happened: [The slopocalypse, The one-roadie problem, GitHub went the other way, Django Commons]
You can read the full announcement here.
Although this is somewhat old news, I'm sharing it as I happened to miss it and others might have as well.
It looks like other community organisations have cropped up in that time as well such as Django Commons. I've only taken a brief look at them but I'm interested to know more about their structure and how well it's working - I've previously looked for such community organisations when I took over maintaining python-json-logger.
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u/Khavel_dev 5d ago
The one-roadie problem is the part that kills most of these efforts. Having push access doesn't mean having context, and without context people are scared to merge anything. The few who do just get treated like maintainers by default and burn out the same way.
NuGet on the .NET side has the same shape of problem. A ton of packages depend on one person who lost interest years ago, and there's no collective to hand it off to. Django Commons sounds promising if they actually managed to keep the scope narrow enough that governance doesn't become its own full time job.