Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout

Christopher Hiller joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss the ups and downs of maintaining Mocha - a JavaScript test framework that runs on Node.js and in the browser. Discussions included maintaining a popular project, getting funding, the challenges of having money, raising the profile of a project, focusing on the needs of a community, and managing burnout.

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Featuring:

• Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
• Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Mocha - the fun, simple, flexible JavaScript test framework
• mochajs/mocha on GitHub
• Mocha on GitHub
• Mocha on Open Collective
• Mocha on npm

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!