
ANTHOLOGY — Maintaining maintainers (Interview)
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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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- Dr. Dawn Foster – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Angie Byron – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- GitHub Sponsors
- GitHub Accelerator
- CHAOSS
- Changelog Interviews #321: Drupal is a pretty big deal
- Drupal
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 1:31Sponsor: Square
- 4:25Start the show!
- 5:11Who's running GitHub Sponsors?
- 6:00GitHub Sponsors' mission?
- 6:45Sponsors now open to companies
- 7:49Traction with companies?
- 9:27What's a typical give?
- 9:52Best has been FOSS Contributor Fund
- 10:34Open Source pricing page
- 11:34Maintainer guilt? Nah.
- 14:01Serving a "Term of Service"
- 16:59What's next for Sponsors?
- 18:55GitHub Accelerator like YC?
- 23:33Maintainer dashboard?
- 29:18How do Maintainers get paid?
- 30:14Sponsor: Sentry
- 34:27Dr. Dawn Foster on the mic
- 35:22PhD and the Linux Kernel
- 38:02CHAOSS
- 39:13Is there a score?
- 41:01Measuring trends and who cares?
- 43:50How is the data represented?
- 46:14Choosing which metrics to meassure
- 50:41Why push back on scoring?
- 53:19How to recruit contributors?
- 55:32Getting started with CHAOSS
- 56:12Sponsor: Typesense
- 59:29Is Drupal still a big deal?
- 1:00:57Still in the Drupal community?
- 1:02:27Adam really enjoyed episode #321
- 1:03:17What's your maintainer story?
- 1:06:06How did you decide "what's next"?
- 1:08:30Licensing and "not open source"
- 1:11:01This is where it gets icky
- 1:12:43War for the soul of open source
- 1:20:55Maintainer anti-burnout
- 1:24:06Be a cog, not a linchpin.
- 1:28:16Outro