Awesome Maintainers

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

• @alyssais, Homebrew
  • "Why I helped maintain Homebrew" (video)
• @amjith, pgcli
  • "Maintainer Stories: Amjith Ramanujam" (video)
• @antirez, Redis
  • "The struggles of an open source maintainer" (post)
• @ariya, PhantomJS
  • "Maintainer Stories: Ariya Hidayat" (interview)
• @ashfurrow, Moya
  • "Building Open Source Communities" (slides)
• @bbatsov, Rubocop
  • "Interview with Bozhidar Batsov: The Creator’s Thoughts on RuboCop and the Ruby Style Guide" (post)
• @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)
  • "Setting expectations for open source participation" (post)
  • "Why I took October off from OSS volunteering" (post)
• @brianc, node-postgres
  • "Creating and maintaining node-postgres solo" (interview)
• @BurntSushi, Rust libraries
  • "My FOSS Story" (post)
• @ceejbot, Entropic, npm
  • "The economics of open source" (video, post)
• @colcarroll, PyMC3
  • "Two Years of Open Source" (slides/post)
• @ctb & @mr-c, 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)
• @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
  • "Maintainers Don't Scale" (video, slides, post)
  • "Burning Down the Castle" (video, post)
• @dhh, Rails
  • "Open source beyond the market" (video, post)
• @dominictarr, scuttlebot and others
  • "Statement on event-stream compromise" (post)
• @emilyemorehouse, Python
  • "My Path to Becoming a Python Core Developer" (video)
• @ericholscher, Read the Docs
  • "Maintainer Stories: Eric Holscher" (video)
  • "The post I never published" (post)
• @evancz, Elm
  • "The Hard Parts of Open Source" (video, slides)
  • "On Storytelling" (video)
• @fat, Bootstrap
  • "What is open source and why do I feel so guilty?" (video, slides)
• @fatih, vim-go
  • "Taking an indefinite sabbatical from my projects" (post)
• @feross, WebTorrent
  • "Recap of the funding experiment" (post)
  • "What I learned from WebTorrent: Lessons learned from starting and running a P2P open source project" (slides)
• @fijal, PyPy
  • "Open source funding" (video)
• @FooBarWidget & @prototype, Phusion Passenger
  • "Bootstrapping a business around open source" (video)
  • "Maintaining Passenger" (video)
• @freakboy3742, PyBee
  • "Maintainer Stories: Russell Keith-Magee" (interview)
• @gaearon, React, Redux
  • "Maintaining Open Source Projects: Dan Abramov" (interview)
• @hzoo, Babel
  • "(Open) source of anxiety" (post)
  • "Through the Open Source Looking Glass" (video, slides)
  • "Maintainer, heal thyself" (video, slides)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Henry Zhu" (interview)
  • "Maintaining an OSS project" (video, slides)
• @indexzero, winston
  • "Keeping Important Code Alive" (slides)
  • "Modernizing winston for node@4" (video, slides)
• @jacobian, Django
  • "What Part of '... for Life' Don't You Understand?" (video)
• @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)
• @jodosha, Hanami
  • "Lessons Learned While Building Hanami" (video, slides)
• @kelset, React Native
  • "All Hands on Deck: The React Native Community Experience" (video, slides)
• @kennethreitz, requests
  • "The Reality of Developer Burnout" (post)
• @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)
• @KrauseFx, fastlane
  • "Scaling open source communities" (post)
• @kris-nova, kubernetes-kops
  • "Maintainer Stories: Kris Nova" (interview)
• @Krzysztof-Cieslak, Ionide
  • "OSS and Community: The Story" (post)
• @kytrinyx, Exercism
  • "Maintainer Stories: Katrina Owen" (video)
• @lmccart, p5.js
  • "Design, Software, and Open Source" (interview)
• @mikeal, request
  • "Request's Past, Present and Future" (post)
• @MikeMcQuaid, Homebrew
  • "Research Study Interview: The Work of Maintaining Open Source Software" (post)
  • "The Open Source Contributor Funnel" (post, video, slides)
• @mlavin, Django
  • "Maintaining Your Sanity While Maintaining Your Open Source App" (video)
• @mpdehaan, Ansible, SourceOptics
  • "Michael DeHaan on creating Ansible and SourceOptics" (interview)
• @mxcl, Homebrew
  • "Making Homebrew: The Genesis and Growth of a Global Open Source Project" (video)
• @nathanmarz, Apache Storm
  • "History of Apache Storm and lessons learned" (post)
• @nolanlawson, PouchDB
  • "What it feels like to be an open-source maintainer" (post)
• @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)
• @Schneems, Sprockets, CodeTriage
  • "Saving Sprockets - What happens when a maintainer leaves" (video, post with transcript)
• @sebmck, Babel
  • "~2015 in review" (post)
• @Seldaek, Composer
  • "Behind the Scenes of Maintaining an Open Source Project" (video)
• @sindresorhus, AVA, awesome
  • "Between the Wires: An interview with open source developer Sindre Sorhus" (interview)
• @steveklabnik, Ruby on Rails
  • "How to be an open source gardener" (post)
• @stewartsmith, Skiboot
  • "Organizational Change: Challenges in shipping open source firmware" (video)
• @stuarthalloway, Clojure
  • "Stewardship Made Practical" (video)
• @tbrisker, Foreman
  • "On maintaining Foreman" (video)
• @tgamblin, Spack
  • "Open Source and Supercomputers (Spack)" (interview)
• @timgraham, Django
  • "Maintainer Stories: Tim Graham" (interview)
• @Trott, slug
  • "Slugging It Out In Open Source" (audio, transcript)
• @vjeux, React Native, Prettier
  • "Being Successful at Open Source" (video)
• @withoutboats, Rust
  • "Organizational Debt" (post)
• @yyx990803, Vue.js
  • "Crowdfunding Open Source (Vue.js)" (interview)
  • "Maintainer Stories: Evan You" (interview)
  • "The Journey to Full Time Open Source" (video)