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Funding should pay for maintenance, not features, because every new feature adds to the burden the money was meant to relieve.

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

Everything decays without maintenance

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  1. Filippo Valsorda Cryptographer, formerly of the Go team at Google
    Finally, the health of the project depends on issue triage, bug fixes, refactors, and design work more than on new features. In fact, new features increase the maintenance burden.

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