awesome-maintainers

Maintainer tales

Collects stories and insights from experienced software maintainers about their experiences in managing and contributing to open source projects.

Talks, blog posts, and interviews about the experience of being an open source maintainer

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Awesome Maintainers
@alyssais ,

Awesome Maintainers / @alyssais
video "Why I helped maintain Homebrew" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@amjith ,

Awesome Maintainers / @amjith
video "Maintainer Stories: Amjith Ramanujam" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@antirez ,

Awesome Maintainers / @antirez
post "The struggles of an open source maintainer" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@ariya ,

Awesome Maintainers / @ariya
interview "Maintainer Stories: Ariya Hidayat" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@ashfurrow ,

Awesome Maintainers / @ashfurrow
slides "Building Open Source Communities" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@bbatsov ,

Awesome Maintainers / @bbatsov
post "Interview with Bozhidar Batsov: The Creator’s Thoughts on RuboCop and the Ruby Style Guide" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@boneskull ,

Awesome Maintainers / @boneskull
interview "Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@brettcannon ,

Awesome Maintainers / @brettcannon
video "The give and take of open source" ( )
interview "Maintainer Stories: Brett Cannon" ( )
post "Setting expectations for open source participation" ( )
post "Why I took October off from OSS volunteering" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@brianc ,

Awesome Maintainers / @brianc
interview "Creating and maintaining node-postgres solo" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@BurntSushi ,

Awesome Maintainers / @BurntSushi
post "My FOSS Story" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@ceejbot , ,

Awesome Maintainers / @ceejbot
video "The economics of open source" ( , )

Awesome Maintainers
@colcarroll ,

Awesome Maintainers / @colcarroll
slides/post "Two Years of Open Source" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@ctb & ,

Awesome Maintainers / @ctb
paper "Channeling Community Contributions to Scientific Software: A Sprint Experience" ( )
paper "Walking the Talk: Adopting and Adapting Sustainable Scientific Software Development processes in a Small Biology Lab" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@danielbachhuber ,

Awesome Maintainers / @danielbachhuber
interview "Experiments and the Economics of Open Source" ( )
video "My condolences, you're now the maintainer of a popular open source project" ( , )

Awesome Maintainers
@danvet ,

Awesome Maintainers / @danvet
video "Maintainers Don't Scale" ( , , )
video "Burning Down the Castle" ( , )

Awesome Maintainers
@dhh ,

Awesome Maintainers / @dhh
video "Open source beyond the market" ( , )

Awesome Maintainers
@dominictarr , and others

Awesome Maintainers / @dominictarr
post "Statement on event-stream compromise" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@emilyemorehouse ,

Awesome Maintainers / @emilyemorehouse
video "My Path to Becoming a Python Core Developer" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@ericholscher ,

Awesome Maintainers / @ericholscher
video "Maintainer Stories: Eric Holscher" ( )
post "The post I never published" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@evancz ,

Awesome Maintainers / @evancz
video "The Hard Parts of Open Source" ( , )
video "On Storytelling" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@fat ,

Awesome Maintainers / @fat
video "What is open source and why do I feel so guilty?" ( , )

Awesome Maintainers
@fatih ,

Awesome Maintainers / @fatih
post "Taking an indefinite sabbatical from my projects" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@feross ,

Awesome Maintainers / @feross
post "Recap of the experiment" ( )
slides "What I learned from WebTorrent: Lessons learned from starting and running a P2P open source project" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@fijal ,

Awesome Maintainers / @fijal
video "Open source funding" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@FooBarWidget & ,

Awesome Maintainers / @FooBarWidget
video "Bootstrapping a business around open source" ( )
video "Maintaining Passenger" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@freakboy3742 ,

Awesome Maintainers / @freakboy3742
interview "Maintainer Stories: Russell Keith-Magee" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@gaearon , ,

Awesome Maintainers / @gaearon
interview "Maintaining Open Source Projects: Dan Abramov" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@hzoo ,

Awesome Maintainers / @hzoo
post "(Open) source of anxiety" ( )
video "Through the Open Source Looking Glass" ( , )
video "Maintainer, heal thyself" ( , )
interview "Maintainer Stories: Henry Zhu" ( )
video "Maintaining an OSS project" ( , )

Awesome Maintainers
@indexzero ,

Awesome Maintainers / @indexzero
slides "Keeping Important Code Alive" ( )
video "Modernizing winston for node@4" ( , )

Awesome Maintainers
@jacobian ,

Awesome Maintainers / @jacobian
video "What Part of '... for Life' Don't You Understand?" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@janl ,

Awesome Maintainers / @janl
post "Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@jeresig ,

Awesome Maintainers / @jeresig
interview "Walking Away From Your Open Source Project: John Resig" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@jessfraz ,

Awesome Maintainers / @jessfraz
interview "Maintainer Stories: Jess Frazelle ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@jodosha ,

Awesome Maintainers / @jodosha
video "Lessons Learned While Building Hanami" ( , )

Awesome Maintainers
@kelset ,

Awesome Maintainers / @kelset
video "All Hands on Deck: The React Native Community Experience" ( , )

Awesome Maintainers
@kennethreitz ,

Awesome Maintainers / @kennethreitz
post "The Reality of Developer Burnout" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@kentcdodds ,

Awesome Maintainers / @kentcdodds
video "The First Pull Request" ( , )
podcast "First-time Contributors and Maintainer Balance" ( )
video "Managing an Open Source Project" ( , )
video "Open Sourcing Your Stuff" ( , )

Awesome Maintainers
@KrauseFx ,

Awesome Maintainers / @KrauseFx
post "Scaling open source communities" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@kris-nova ,

Awesome Maintainers / @kris-nova
interview "Maintainer Stories: Kris Nova" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@Krzysztof-Cieslak ,

Awesome Maintainers / @Krzysztof-Cieslak
post "OSS and Community: The Story" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@kytrinyx ,

Awesome Maintainers / @kytrinyx
video "Maintainer Stories: Katrina Owen" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@lmccart ,

Awesome Maintainers / @lmccart
interview "Design, Software, and Open Source" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@mikeal ,

Awesome Maintainers / @mikeal
post 25,674 3 months ago "Request's Past, Present and Future" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@MikeMcQuaid ,

Awesome Maintainers / @MikeMcQuaid
post "Research Study Interview: The Work of Maintaining Open Source Software" ( )
post "The Open Source Contributor Funnel" ( , , )

Awesome Maintainers
@mlavin ,

Awesome Maintainers / @mlavin
video "Maintaining Your Sanity While Maintaining Your Open Source App" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@mpdehaan , ,

Awesome Maintainers / @mpdehaan
interview "Michael DeHaan on creating Ansible and SourceOptics" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@mxcl ,

Awesome Maintainers / @mxcl
video "Making Homebrew: The Genesis and Growth of a Global Open Source Project" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@nathanmarz ,

Awesome Maintainers / @nathanmarz
post "History of Apache Storm and lessons learned" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@nolanlawson ,

Awesome Maintainers / @nolanlawson
post "What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@pgbovine ,

Awesome Maintainers / @pgbovine
video "Python Tutor Software Development Philosophy" ( )
post "Ten years and nearly ten million users: my experience being a solo maintainer of open-source software in academia" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@Schneems , ,

Awesome Maintainers / @Schneems
video "Saving Sprockets - What happens when a maintainer leaves" ( , )

Awesome Maintainers
@sebmck ,

Awesome Maintainers / @sebmck
post "~2015 in review" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@Seldaek ,

Awesome Maintainers / @Seldaek
video "Behind the Scenes of Maintaining an Open Source Project" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@sindresorhus , ,

Awesome Maintainers / @sindresorhus
interview "Between the Wires: An interview with open source developer Sindre Sorhus" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@steveklabnik ,

Awesome Maintainers / @steveklabnik
post "How to be an open source gardener" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@stewartsmith ,

Awesome Maintainers / @stewartsmith
video "Organizational Change: Challenges in shipping open source firmware" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@stuarthalloway ,

Awesome Maintainers / @stuarthalloway
video "Stewardship Made Practical" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@tbrisker ,

Awesome Maintainers / @tbrisker
video "On maintaining Foreman" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@tgamblin ,

Awesome Maintainers / @tgamblin
interview "Open Source and Supercomputers (Spack)" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@timgraham ,

Awesome Maintainers / @timgraham
interview "Maintainer Stories: Tim Graham" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@Trott ,

Awesome Maintainers / @Trott
audio "Slugging It Out In Open Source" ( , )

Awesome Maintainers
@vjeux , ,

Awesome Maintainers / @vjeux
video "Being Successful at Open Source" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@withoutboats ,

Awesome Maintainers / @withoutboats
post "Organizational Debt" ( )

Awesome Maintainers
@yyx990803 ,

Awesome Maintainers / @yyx990803
interview "Crowdfunding Open Source (Vue.js)" ( )
interview "Maintainer Stories: Evan You" ( )
video "The Journey to Full Time Open Source" ( )

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