Feeling burnt out

I spent most of last week chasing bugs in libxml2, libxslt and gamin. Finally made new releases libxml2-2.6.19 and libxslt-1.1.14 . Still chasing some issues with gamin. But I'm exhausted and overall starting to feel nauseus about the way people interract with me, gamin bugs that are not entered in GNOME bugzilla, Jdub caracterizing me as "not hugely responsive", even stating "Even the Red Hat desktop team are not getting traction from him on this one." i.e. the colleagues instead of putting bug out prefer to rant on my inability to fix unreported things ; and now I get flamed because libxml2 API python API is "ugly", crashes, etc... One very seldomly get thanks when things work, but you sure get the crap if there is anything wrong.

I'm tempted to raise a big FUCK OFF flag at this point. If ignoring feddback, IRC and just looking at the complete bug reports is the only way to retain one's sanity when trying to do open source development, then so be it. I will just note that historically, as Linux (the kernel) project grew, the communication channel between those who where doing it and those who were using it decoupled more and nore. Maybe it's normal, maybe it's the way to not waste too much time on communication issues. I note that a number of old time GNOME developpers are less and less on IRC, only sitting on specialized list, for those still around the project at all. I still find this sad and I'm having that really bad feeling at the moment, maybe I hould just not care, it's a job, and take it purely like it.

Anyway I will be on vacations in a few days nearly till the end of April, I am really looking forward it since I'm really fed up at this point. Maybe I will be ready to continue to take the crap after that, but I may as well change the way I do things when I return.