Redis author resigns from Redis project?
Yesterday, June 30th. Redis author Antirez announced his resignation from the Redis project on his blog. He will no longer be the leader and maintainer of the Redis project. Antirez chose to leave Redis in the hands of the Redis community and enlisted two colleagues, Yossi Gottlieb and Oran Agra, to maintain the Redis project. He will be a member of the advisory board of Redis Labs and will contribute his ideas for more development possibilities of Redis.
Where does Redis author Antirez go from here?
As for whether he will be writing code again, Antirez says he doesn’t know, because he hasn’t made any future plans yet.
Why did Antirez, the author of Redis, resign from the Redis project?
When it comes to Redis, Antirez says he spends a lot of time and energy making sure it is usable and reliable. Most of his attention is spent looking at other developers’ code submitted for Redis, but Antirez says he never wanted to be a software maintainer. And now he’s being asked to do it more and more, to express himself a little less, to defend the project a little more, by an environment created by a project that has become so important.
Antirez agrees that this is exactly what Redis needs right now, but it’s not what he wants to do. He said he had worn himself out over the past few years.
Antirez’s point — I want to be an artist
Antirez sees coding as a form of self-expression, and the code he writes is a work of art, not just something useful to accomplish a goal — of course he thinks his writing is useful too, but that’s just a by-product of making art. His primary goal was to make something that was beautiful in some way.
At its core, Antirez says, he’d rather be remembered as a bad artist than a good programmer.
What do you think about that?
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