Enigma2Illusion - 2021-05-19

I think people tend to forget that Mounir as a fulltime job, family obligations and the data center fire that impacted his livelihood and the VeraCrypt project.

I think people should consider how much time it takes to work on VeraCrypt for three OS's including the various Linux variants.

Mounir Idrassi handling the many features of VeraCrypt across three OS platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows) by performing development, testing, bug fixes and releasing software during his free personal time after working a fulltime job and family commitments for little to no monetary compensation. Just to compile and perform a release takes two days for a release of the three OSs.

Beta software is released to the VeraCrypt community with the hope that users are willing to test new upcoming versions to find issues before the next version is released since it is impossible for the developer to have test machines from the various PC makers, various Windows, Linux, Mac OS versions and various disk partitioning configurations for testing.

Hence, the developer relies on the VeraCrypt user community to help test the beta releases.

As with many Open Source projects, the developers rely on the user community to help each other with issues due to the overwhelming requests for assistance.

TL:DR
Each VeraCrypt user should consider how much work effort is involved on an Open Source project supporting three OSs and their various versions for little financial gain by performing development, testing, bug fixes and releasing software during their free time after meeting their obligations of fulltime job and family obligations. Not to mention some VeraCrypt users feeling entitled to have their support issues and/or features worked on immediately. :)