alibi_shop | the worst mousetrap (Reply)

At work I'm currently struggling with an open-source programming tool that, despite being widely used, barely works at all. I was wondering if its creators had abandoned it (as often happens) so I went to where the source code is, and found a huge list of bug reports on the theme of "this barely works at all", going back years... each with a series of status updates by the creators, that were like "scheduling this to be fixed for release 1.5... no, 1.6... no, 1.8... no, 2.0... no... hey, can anyone out there fix this?" I told my co-workers that it was like watching a small group of brave people very slowly drowning.