Challenges of Open-Source Maintainers and Software Development Skills

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Exploring the challenges of succession in open-source projects and the essential skills and knowledge required for software development. It addresses the debate on support for unpaid maintainers and the need for sustainable community backing of older libraries.

The big story right now is the recently uncovered backdoor in liblzma (aka XZ) – a relatively obscure compression library that happens to be a dependency of OpenSSH.

This incident is noteworthy for so many reasons: the exploit itself, how it was deployed, how it was found, what it says about our industry & how the community reacted. Let’s dig in!

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