brainwane, 2 months ago Stuff I already wrote that other people might be open to reading this week, because of the #xz incident: https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2021/sidestepping-the-pr-bottleneck-four-non-dev-ways-to-support-your-upstreams/ Four Non-Dev Ways To Support Your Upstreams (Pass this along to executives who are asking "how can we prevent this in our dependencies?") https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/user-support-equanimity-potential-cross-project-tools-practices-open-source/ Potential cross-project #opensource tools and practices that you/we can implement to help lighten the load on each other 1/n
Stuff I already wrote that other people might be open to reading this week, because of the #xz incident:
https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2021/sidestepping-the-pr-bottleneck-four-non-dev-ways-to-support-your-upstreams/ Four Non-Dev Ways To Support Your Upstreams (Pass this along to executives who are asking "how can we prevent this in our dependencies?")
https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/user-support-equanimity-potential-cross-project-tools-practices-open-source/ Potential cross-project #opensource tools and practices that you/we can implement to help lighten the load on each other
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brainwane, 2 months ago https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2024/trust-new-maintainer/#how-to-assess Whether And How To Trust A New Maintainer (pass this around in case your co-maintainers are asking "how can we promote a contributor ever again?") What is this like? Comparing this promotion to 4 other trust decisions helps us think about: How can we assess trustworthiness? Ideas for steps you could take. Can you reduce how much trust you need to give? Mitigate how much harm they could do. What if you don't have time? 3 options. 2/n #xz #maintainership
https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2024/trust-new-maintainer/#how-to-assess Whether And How To Trust A New Maintainer (pass this around in case your co-maintainers are asking "how can we promote a contributor ever again?")
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#xz #maintainership
brainwane, 2 months ago https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2021/what-would-open-source-look-like-if-it-were-healthy-video-transcript/#healthy-oss-legacy-ending What Would Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy? In particular: I imagine a legacy project "failing" (or, rather, ending) when a maintainer decides to step away, and lay out what tools and practices we'd need to make a soft landing and good transition for everyone involved. https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/maintainer-burnout-pycon-us-2023-followup/ Maintainer #Burnout -- covers work approaches that can help, succession/#sustainability, deprecating components/closing a project, and more. 3/n #xz #maintainership
https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2021/what-would-open-source-look-like-if-it-were-healthy-video-transcript/#healthy-oss-legacy-ending What Would Open Source Look Like If It Were Healthy? In particular: I imagine a legacy project "failing" (or, rather, ending) when a maintainer decides to step away, and lay out what tools and practices we'd need to make a soft landing and good transition for everyone involved.
https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/maintainer-burnout-pycon-us-2023-followup/ Maintainer #Burnout -- covers work approaches that can help, succession/#sustainability, deprecating components/closing a project, and more.
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brainwane, 2 months ago And: https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2022/six-key-maintainer-skill-guides/ several skill guides, such as: https://docs.oscollective.org/guides/deciding-on-how-to-use-your-money "Deciding How To Use Your Project's Money": When should you spend or save? What's on your project's roadmap, and how could you spend to support it? Especially relevant right now as we discuss funding as one way companies can support their #opensource dependencies. I share tips for using cash effectively even when it isn't enough for full-time employment. 4/4 #xz #maintainership
And: https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2022/six-key-maintainer-skill-guides/ several skill guides, such as:
https://docs.oscollective.org/guides/deciding-on-how-to-use-your-money "Deciding How To Use Your Project's Money": When should you spend or save? What's on your project's roadmap, and how could you spend to support it?
Especially relevant right now as we discuss funding as one way companies can support their #opensource dependencies. I share tips for using cash effectively even when it isn't enough for full-time employment.
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