https://www.trackawesomelist.com/nayafia/awesome-maintainers/week/feed.xml 2021-08-14T23:58:22.000Z jsonfeed-to-atom https://www.trackawesomelist.com/favicon.ico https://www.trackawesomelist.com/icon.png Talks, blog posts, and interviews about the experience of being an open source maintainer https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2021/32/ 2021-08-14T23:58:22.000Z 2021-08-14T23:58:22.000Z

@Trott, slug (⭐220)

• "Slugging It Out In Open Source" (audio, transcript)

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1 awesome projects updated on Aug 09 - Aug 15, 2021

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2020/4/ 2020-01-20T20:40:32.000Z 2020-01-20T20:40:32.000Z

@BurntSushi, Rust libraries

• "My FOSS Story" (post)

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1 awesome projects updated on Jan 27 - Feb 02, 2020

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/47/ 2019-11-23T01:36:11.000Z 2019-11-23T01:36:11.000Z

@pgbovine, Python Tutor

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

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1 awesome projects updated on Nov 25 - Dec 01, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/46/ 2019-11-11T00:15:17.000Z 2019-11-11T00:15:17.000Z

@brettcannon, Python

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

• @sebmck, Babel (⭐42k)
  • "~2015 in review" (post)

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2 awesome projects updated on Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/42/ 2019-10-17T01:20:32.000Z 2019-10-17T01:13:37.000Z

@ashfurrow, Moya (⭐14k)

• "Building Open Source Communities" (slides)

• @hzoo, Babel (⭐42k)
  • "(Open) source of anxiety" (post)
  • "Through the Open Source Looking Glass" (video, slides (⭐20))
  • "Maintainer, heal thyself" (video, slides)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Henry Zhu" (interview)
  • "Maintaining an OSS project" (video, slides)

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2 awesome projects updated on Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/41/ 2019-10-13T17:28:36.000Z 2019-10-13T11:21:26.000Z

@brianc, node-postgres (⭐11k)

• "Creating and maintaining node-postgres solo" (interview)

• @mpdehaan, Ansible (⭐55k), SourceOptics
  • "Michael DeHaan on creating Ansible and SourceOptics" (interview)

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2 awesome projects updated on Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/38/ 2019-09-20T16:47:03.000Z 2019-09-20T16:47:03.000Z

@nathanmarz, Apache Storm (⭐6.4k)

• "History of Apache Storm and lessons learned" (post)

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1 awesome projects updated on Sep 23 - Sep 29, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/31/ 2019-07-31T22:06:33.000Z 2019-07-31T22:06:33.000Z

@kelset, React Native (⭐105k)

• "All Hands on Deck: The React Native Community Experience" (video, slides)

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1 awesome projects updated on Aug 05 - Aug 11, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/23/ 2019-06-03T14:30:12.000Z 2019-06-03T14:20:22.000Z

@ceejbot, Entropic (⭐5.3k), npm (⭐6.5k)

• "The economics of open source" (video, post (⭐479))

• @dhh, Rails
  • "Open source beyond the market" (video, post)

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2 awesome projects updated on Jun 10 - Jun 16, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/21/ 2019-05-20T19:46:58.000Z 2019-05-20T17:20:05.000Z

@antirez, Redis (⭐57k)

• "The struggles of an open source maintainer" (post)

• @feross, WebTorrent (⭐27k)
  • "Recap of the funding experiment" (post)
  • "What I learned from WebTorrent: Lessons learned from starting and running a P2P open source project" (slides)

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2 awesome projects updated on May 27 - Jun 02, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/17/ 2019-04-24T16:54:16.000Z 2019-04-24T16:54:16.000Z

@emilyemorehouse, Python

• "My Path to Becoming a Python Core Developer" (video)

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1 awesome projects updated on Apr 29 - May 05, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/16/ 2019-04-21T22:15:05.000Z 2019-04-21T22:15:05.000Z

@colcarroll, PyMC3 (⭐7.1k)

• "Two Years of Open Source" (slides/post)

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1 awesome projects updated on Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/15/ 2019-04-12T16:56:12.000Z 2019-04-12T16:56:12.000Z

@mikeal, request (⭐26k)

• "Request's Past, Present and Future" (post (⭐26k))

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1 awesome projects updated on Apr 15 - Apr 21, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/14/ 2019-04-04T18:11:41.000Z 2019-04-04T18:11:41.000Z

@indexzero, winston

• "Keeping Important Code Alive" (slides)
• "Modernizing winston for node@4" (video, slides)

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1 awesome projects updated on Apr 08 - Apr 14, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/4/ 2019-01-27T00:02:22.000Z 2019-01-27T00:02:22.000Z

@stuarthalloway, Clojure (⭐9.7k)

• "Stewardship Made Practical" (video)

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1 awesome projects updated on Jan 28 - Feb 03, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2019/2/ 2019-01-10T19:29:25.000Z 2019-01-10T19:29:25.000Z

@withoutboats, Rust

• "Organizational Debt" (post)

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1 awesome projects updated on Jan 14 - Jan 20, 2019

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/48/ 2018-11-30T17:46:36.000Z 2018-11-30T17:46:36.000Z

@dominictarr, scuttlebot (⭐1.6k) and others

• "Statement on event-stream compromise" (post)

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1 awesome projects updated on Nov 26 - Dec 02, 2018

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/45/ 2018-11-08T19:14:28.000Z 2018-11-08T19:14:28.000Z

@fatih, vim-go (⭐15k)

• "Taking an indefinite sabbatical from my projects" (post)

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1 awesome projects updated on Nov 05 - Nov 11, 2018

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/41/ 2018-10-12T16:23:51.000Z 2018-10-12T16:23:51.000Z

@evancz, Elm (⭐7k)

• "The Hard Parts of Open Source" (video, slides)
• "On Storytelling" (video)

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1 awesome projects updated on Oct 08 - Oct 14, 2018

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/33/ 2018-08-15T08:46:59.000Z 2018-08-15T08:46:59.000Z

@MikeMcQuaid, Homebrew

• "Research Study Interview: The Work of Maintaining Open Source Software" (post)
• "The Open Source Contributor Funnel" (post, video, slides)

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1 awesome projects updated on Aug 13 - Aug 19, 2018

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/31/ 2018-08-02T16:28:45.000Z 2018-08-02T16:28:45.000Z

@jacobian, Django (⭐67k)

• "What Part of '... for Life' Don't You Understand?" (video)

• @sindresorhus, AVA (⭐20k), awesome (⭐223k)
  • "Between the Wires: An interview with open source developer Sindre Sorhus" (interview)

• @vjeux, React Native (⭐105k), Prettier (⭐44k)
  • "Being Successful at Open Source" (video)

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

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4 awesome projects updated on Jul 30 - Aug 05, 2018

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/27/ 2018-07-02T18:02:56.000Z 2018-07-02T18:02:56.000Z

@bbatsov, Rubocop (⭐12k)

• "Interview with Bozhidar Batsov: The Creator’s Thoughts on RuboCop and the Ruby Style Guide" (post)

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1 awesome projects updated on Jul 02 - Jul 08, 2018

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/26/ 2018-06-25T15:59:49.000Z 2018-06-25T09:11:31.000Z

@alyssais, Homebrew (⭐34k)

• "Why I helped maintain Homebrew" (video)

• @amjith, pgcli (⭐11k)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Amjith Ramanujam" (video)

• @FooBarWidget & @prototype, Phusion Passenger
  • "Bootstrapping a business around open source" (video)
  • "Maintaining Passenger" (video)

• @tbrisker, Foreman (⭐2.3k)
  • "On maintaining Foreman" (video)

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4 awesome projects updated on Jun 25 - Jul 01, 2018

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/25/ 2018-06-21T02:10:33.000Z 2018-06-21T02:10:33.000Z

@mxcl, Homebrew

• "Making Homebrew: The Genesis and Growth of a Global Open Source Project" (video)

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1 awesome projects updated on Jun 18 - Jun 24, 2018

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/14/ 2018-04-08T21:26:15.000Z 2018-04-08T21:26:15.000Z

@KrauseFx, fastlane (⭐36k)

• "Scaling open source communities" (post)

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1 awesome projects updated on Apr 02 - Apr 08, 2018

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/12/ 2018-03-21T17:55:22.000Z 2018-03-21T17:55:22.000Z

@fijal, PyPy

• "Open source funding" (video)

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1 awesome projects updated on Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2018

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/9/ 2018-02-26T21:31:04.000Z 2018-02-26T21:31:04.000Z

@Krzysztof-Cieslak, Ionide

• "OSS and Community: The Story" (post)

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1 awesome projects updated on Feb 26 - Mar 04, 2018

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/7/ 2018-02-14T19:29:13.000Z 2018-02-12T09:26:15.000Z

@ctb & @mr-c, khmer (⭐692)

• "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" (paper)

• @fat, Bootstrap (⭐160k)
  • "What is open source and why do I feel so guilty?" (video, slides)

• @jodosha, Hanami
  • "Lessons Learned While Building Hanami" (video, slides)

• @kennethreitz, requests (⭐48k)
  • "The Reality of Developer Burnout" (post)

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4 awesome projects updated on Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2018

https://www.trackawesomelist.com/2018/6/ 2018-02-08T11:29:58.000Z 2018-02-05T12:23:59.000Z

@ariya, PhantomJS (⭐29k)

• "Maintainer Stories: Ariya Hidayat" (interview)

• @boneskull, Mocha (⭐22k)
  • "Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout" (interview)

• @danielbachhuber, wp-cli (⭐4.6k)
  • "Experiments and the Economics of Open Source" (interview)
  • "My condolences, you're now the maintainer of a popular open source project" (video, post)

• @danvet, Linux drm-intel
  • "Maintainers Don't Scale" (video, slides, post)
  • "Burning Down the Castle" (video, post)

• @ericholscher, Read the Docs (⭐7.3k)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Eric Holscher" (video)
  • "The post I never published" (post)

• @freakboy3742, PyBee
  • "Maintainer Stories: Russell Keith-Magee" (interview)

• @gaearon, React (⭐196k), Redux (⭐59k)
  • "Maintaining Open Source Projects: Dan Abramov" (interview)

• @janl, CouchDB (⭐5.5k)
  • "Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source" (post)

• @jeresig, jQuery (⭐57k)
  • "Walking Away From Your Open Source Project: John Resig" (interview)

• @jessfraz, Kubernetes
  • "Maintainer Stories: Jess Frazelle (interview)

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

• @kris-nova, kubernetes-kops (⭐14k)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Kris Nova" (interview)

• @kytrinyx, Exercism
  • "Maintainer Stories: Katrina Owen" (video)

• @lmccart, p5.js (⭐18k)
  • "Design, Software, and Open Source" (interview)

• @mlavin, Django (⭐67k)
  • "Maintaining Your Sanity While Maintaining Your Open Source App" (video)

• @nolanlawson, PouchDB (⭐15k)
  • "What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer" (post)

• @Schneems, Sprockets (⭐863), CodeTriage
  • "Saving Sprockets - What happens when a maintainer leaves" (video, post with transcript)

• @Seldaek, Composer (⭐27k)
  • "Behind the Scenes of Maintaining an Open Source Project" (video)

• @steveklabnik, Ruby on Rails (⭐52k)
  • "How to be an open source gardener" (post)

• @stewartsmith, Skiboot (⭐94)
  • "Organizational Change: Challenges in shipping open source firmware" (video)

• @tgamblin, Spack (⭐3k)
  • "Open Source and Supercomputers (Spack)" (interview)

• @timgraham, Django
  • "Maintainer Stories: Tim Graham" (interview)

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22 awesome projects updated on Feb 05 - Feb 11, 2018