https://github.com/nayafia/awesome-maintainers
Talks, blog posts, and interviews about the experience of being an open source maintainer
@amjith , pgcli
"Maintainer Stories: Amjith Ramanujam" (video )
@ariya , PhantomJS
"Maintainer Stories: Ariya Hidayat" (interview )
@boneskull , Mocha
"Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout" (interview )
@brettcannon , Python
"The give and take of open source" (video )
"Maintainer Stories: Brett Cannon" (interview )
@danielbachhuber , wp-cli
"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
@ericholscher , Read the Docs
"Maintainer Stories: Eric Holscher" (video )
@fat , Bootstrap
"What is open source and why do I feel so guilty?" (video , slides )
@freakboy3742 , PyBee
"Maintainer Stories: Russell Keith-Magee" (interview )
@gaearon , React , Redux
"Maintaining Open Source Projects: Dan Abramov" (interview )
@hzoo , Babel
@janl , CouchDB
"Sustainable Open Source: The Maintainers Perspective or: How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love Open Source" (post )
@jeresig , jQuery
"Walking Away From Your Open Source Project: John Resig" (interview )
@jessfraz , Kubernetes
"Maintainer Stories: Jess Frazelle (interview )
@kentcdodds , various
@kris-nova , kubernetes-kops
@kytrinyx , Exercism
"Maintainer Stories: Katrina Owen" (video )
@lmccart , p5.js
"Design, Software, and Open Source" (interview )
@MikeMcQuaid , Homebrew
@mlavin , Django
"Maintaining Your Sanity While Maintaining Your Open Source App" (video )
@mr-c & @ctb , khmer
"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 )
@nolanlawson , PouchDB
"What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer" (post )
@Seldaek , Composer
"Behind the Scenes of Maintaining an Open Source Project" (video )
@tgamblin , Spack
"Open Source and Supercomputers (Spack)" (interview )
@timgraham , Django
@yyx990803 , Vue.js
"Crowdfunding Open Source (Vue.js)" (interview )
"Maintainer Stories: Evan You" (interview )
Additional suggestions are welcomed! Please open a PR .
Criteria:
Content is about the experience of being an open source maintainer
Content comes from the maintainer themselves
This list is sorted alphabetically by maintainer username. Sub-bullets are also sorted alphabetically by title. The format is as follows:
[USERNAME](https://github.com/USERNAME), [PROJECT NAME](https://github.com/PROJECT-URL)
* "TITLE" ([video/slides/post/interview](URL))
If they don't have a GitHub profile, or their project isn't on GitHub, link to the equivalent elsewhere. Links should point to their developer profile and repository over personal or project websites.
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