Is there an open source software maintainer in your life? Are you one? GitHub has a private community you can apply for at maintainers.github.com! Folks discuss common problems/solutions, there’s a direct line to GitHub product & betas, and I post funding opportunities. Spread the word please :) - ThreadSky

feynudibranch.bsky.social • 83 days ago

Is there an open source software maintainer in your life? Are you one?

GitHub has a private community you can apply for at https://maintainers.github.com!

Folks discuss common problems/solutions, there’s a direct line to GitHub product & betas, and I post funding opportunities.

Spread the word please :)

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nemo.foo•82 days ago

I still don’t understand why GitHub is seen as the “home of opensource” when there are platforms like gitlab that are actually opensource.

itty.dev•82 days ago

It’s because GitHub was the first widely-used cloud Git provider on the scene, and became the defacto champion of OS collabs.

Others like GitLab copied it, but since most of the world uses GH it makes sense to use the gold standard, IMO.

foivos.zakkak.net•82 days ago

I had no clue. Thanks for sharing.

guerinoni.bsky.social•76 days ago

To become one of those there is a special program for joining some project?

basaran.io•83 days ago

@ozgur.works is an open source warrior.

nullvoxpopuli.com•76 days ago

requested an invite!

oiyouyeahyou.bsky.social•83 days ago

What's the criteria for invitation? And what to do if criteria changes, like it might in the near future for myself?

nanoapi.io•82 days ago

Thanks for spreading this!! 💪

mergesort.me•83 days ago

Wow, thanks for sharing this! I’ve learned everything I know about being a [hopefully good] maintainer by watching and participating in open source projects for a decade, then applying my own sensibilities to the problems — but I’m sure there’s still so much to learn from others.

mlouard.bsky.social•83 days ago

Potentially dumb question:

What is the best way to become a maintainer? Just have an insane understanding of an open source tool/software, to the point where you could fix bugs, implement upgrades, etc?

Like data stewards, but for open source softwares/tools?

itty.dev•82 days ago

I’ll add to this.

While you build projects/apps/whatever, sometimes you’ll find “gaps”. Basically a feature or library you simply can’t find, or don’t like the available options.

So you build it yourself.

If you think others might want it too, consider packaging/publishing it for the world!

itty.dev•82 days ago

This is how most/all of my libs started, TBH.

Now I’m at around 20M+ downloads a year.

A quick warning tho, employers like this early on because it shows initiative, but eventually it’s a red flag to them as they tend to want someone less… “divided” in their focus.

The price we pay I guess!

mlouard.bsky.social•82 days ago

Great insight. I’m currently working on (significantly, in my opinion) improving the DeepDiff package, I’ll eventually make it open source.

Thanks for the chat!

itty.dev•82 days ago

Nice! There are currently a few deep diff libs out there (I’ve used one or two over the years). What’s new and cool with yours? :)

mlouard.bsky.social•82 days ago

A few months back I had to match a JSON created through an XML process. Not too difficult, except I had to build that same process in Python, so I had to be sure everything lined up perfectly (for accurate request/response,etc etc)

Here’s what I found. DeepDiff is amazing on a small level.

mgrunder.bsky.social•83 days ago

Usually, people start by contributing to a project they use. Many large projects use special labels, like "good-first-issue," to designate them as good for beginners.

mlouard.bsky.social•83 days ago

Cool! I know what I’m doing whenever I have free time. Thanks for the heads up!

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