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Why I abandoned MetricFu

My last commit to MetricFu was March 2...  of 2011.  So. much. shame. Since I am throwing in the towel and handing over leadership (perhaps to you), I thought I should explain why I've been such a terrible maintainer and why I'm walking away. Reasons: 1). MetricFu is a mess.  At some point, with all the submissions coming in, the architecture and testing got away from me.  Now it's pretty depressing to see crap code quality in an app that is supposed to be about good code quality.  I can not overstate how embarrassing and frustrating this is – mostly because it's my fault (I let in things I shouldn't have. Stupid feature blindness). 2). In 2008, when I created MetricFu, I was fascinated by metrics and now I'm not because I don't need the tools to see the problems anymore.  Metrics made me better but now I'm leaving them behind:  Selfish. 3). I'm not a consultant at the moment so the exploratory nature of MetricFu isn't very useful t