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After reading Why I'm Frequently Absent from Open Source by James Long and listening the corresponding The Changelog episode, I dwelt on the idea and believe that open source maintainers...

... should never be ashamed if they don't have time for a project.
... should be honest with themselves and open with their users so that everybody can be on the same page
... are people and they have at one time or another responsibilities or hardships that they need to attend to which reasonably take them away from a project
... may also reasonbly decide that they don't like the direction of a project or that they would like to explore other things and may leave a project permanently.

Along this line of thinking I've created a set of descriptions for different levels at which a project might be maintained. A maintainer can use these to announce to their users the current ability that they have to dedicate to a pr

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	import concurrent.futures.thread
	import sys
	import time
	from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed


	def remove_file(path):
	print('Removing file %s' % path)