Panelists Mark Bates, Johnny Boursiquot, and Carmen Andoh discuss Go and open source — what is it, the value in contributing, what it means to be a maintainer, best practices, and the recent blog post from Chris Siebenmann titled “Go is Google’s language, not ours.”

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Featuring:

• Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Changelog News 💚
• Five best practices in open source: internal collaboration
• How to ~> Kubernetes Pull Request
• Go Code Review Comments
• Best Practices for Maintainers
• 20 useful tools for open-source maintainers

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