{"id":3477,"date":"2021-10-25T10:08:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2021-09-25T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T16:11:10","slug":"ending-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/3477","title":{"rendered":"Ending projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is okay to let things end. You don&#8217;t need my permission, but I give it to you anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I have let projects go in the recent and far past. It&#8217;s hard.<\/p>\n<p>Tips for making it just a bit easier:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sit on it for a while. Don&#8217;t make hasty decisions.<\/li>\n<li>Give it a good shot. You, of course, get to define what that is, but you don&#8217;t want to bounce from project to project. 6 months of effort is my rule of thumb.<\/li>\n<li>Listen to your gut. It knows what you really want.<\/li>\n<li>Make a list of the good and the bad about this project.<\/li>\n<li>If you can, offer to hand it off. How this works depends on the project type (an OSS project is different<\/li>\n<li>Allow for a transition period where the project isn&#8217;t supported but isn&#8217;t quite gone.<\/li>\n<li>Realize that changes happen and who you were when you started the project is different than who you are now. That&#8217;s okay.<\/li>\n<li>Giving up something allows you to pursue new goals. This is a good thing.<\/li>\n<li>Say goodbye, either privately or publicly, whatever feels right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s never easy to say goodbye, especially if you have poured your efforts into something for years. I recently let a project I started in 2008 fade away. It wasn&#8217;t serving me any more and I had no enthusiasm for it. My life had moved on, and it took me a few years to acknowledge the truth&#8211;I didn&#8217;t want to maintain the project and couldn&#8217;t find anyone who did. While it was very useful for some folks for some time, it was no longer useful or fun for me.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s never easy to say goodbye, but it can be the right thing to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is okay to let things end. You don&#8217;t need my permission, but I give it to you anyway. I have let projects go in the recent and far past. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-side-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3478,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions\/3478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}