From Users to Maintainers - Tales from the Open Source World
summary
Maintainers describe concrete tactics: guide contributors to open issues before PRs, use issue labels and umbrella tasks as entry points, pair-review large pull requests, and keep a template that nudges politeness. Funding usually comes from donations, sponsors, corporate hires or consulting rather than ad hoc donations; Open Collective and GitHub Sponsors are common. Practical warnings: publishing to Maven Central is preferred for libraries, avoid JitPack for stable releases, and start by contributing to projects you actually use.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:10Meet the maintainers
- 2:57Favorite open source libraries
- 5:24First contributions to open source
- 7:32Struggles of open source maintainers
- 11:05Dealing with toxicity in open source
- 14:18Motivation behind open source work
- 17:22Making money as a full-time maintainer
- 19:52Overcoming imposter syndrome
- 25:28Common open source myths debunked
- 28:16Fostering open source culture in companies
- 33:12Advice for new open source contributors
- 38:02Where to find maintainers and projects
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