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ANTHOLOGY — Maintaining maintainers (Interview)

May 31, 2023

01:30:01

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Episode guests

Angie Byron

Dawn Foster

Stormy Peters

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

GraphQL Explorer: What Developers Expect From Us

2min

The State of Get Up Sponsors

2min

GitHub Optimizing for Sponsors

2min

The New Apple App for Sponsors

2min

How to Set Norms for Software Contributors

2min

How to Pricing Open Source Software

2min

How to Do Session Planning

2min

How to Be a Successful Maintainer

2min

10.

How to Write Prose for Boring Issues

2min

11.

How GitHub Funds Open Source Software Projects

2min

12.

How to Reach 5,000 Stars With GitHub Sponsors

2min

13.

How to Hire a New Lead for Open Source

2min

14.

How GitHub Sponsors Can Help You Sustain Your Project

2min

15.

How to Be a Successful Maintainer on GitHub

2min

16.

The Importance of a Dependant Graph in Open Source Software Development

2min

17.

How to Get Paid to Be a GitHub Sponsor

2min

18.

Century's Acquisition of Code Improves the Century Platform

2min

19.

Code Curve: A Powerful Tool for Developing Code Coverage

3min

20.

The Linux Kernel and the Midlife Crisis

2min

21.

The Benefits of Open Source Projects

2min

22.

Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software

3min

23.

The Benefits of Metrics for Project Health

3min

24.

How to Use Chaos to Manage Your Data

2min

25.

How to Track Your Team's Progress on a Project

2min

26.

The Importance of Metrics in Open Source Projects

2min

27.

The Push Back Against the Kubernetes Score

2min

28.

How to Recruit an Outside Contributor to Your Project

2min

29.

How to Recruit New Contributors to Your CNCF Project

2min

30.

TypeSense Cloud: The Future of Search

2min

31.

Jeff Gereling Moving Off Drupal?

2min

32.

The Transition to Drupal

2min

33.

How to Be a Successful Drupal Maintainer

2min

34.

The Importance of Documenting the Process

2min

35.

The Venn Diagram of Open Source Community

2min

36.

MongoDB: A Stable Funding Model for Open Source

2min

37.

The Consequences of Open Source

3min

38.

The OSI Needs a Solution to Maintainer Month

2min

39.

The Future of Open Source Licenses

2min

40.

The OSI's Role in the Funding Sustainability Issue

2min

41.

The Importance of Community in Open Source Data Infrastructure

2min

42.

The Immature Ospo Bunny Chance

2min

43.

The Progression Model for Maintainers

2min

44.

The Lynch Pin in a Wagon Wheel

2min

45.

The Role of the Drummer in the Band

2min

46.

The Lynch Pin

2min

47.

How to Maintain Open Source Software

2min

This week on The Changelog we’re continuing our Maintainer Month series by taking to you back to the hallway track of The Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit North America 2023 in Vancouver, Canada. Today’s anthology episode features: Stormy Peters (VP of Communities at GitHub), Dr. Dawn Foster (Director of Open Source Community Strategy at VMware), and Angie Byron (Drupal Core Product Manager and Community Director at Aiven).

Special thanks to our friends at GitHub for sponsoring us to attend this conference as part of Maintainer Month.

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