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Contributors can't take meaningful ownership without understanding a project's goals, boundaries, and decision-making process.
Arjun Sharda shares five practical habits for maintainers, including documenting architectural decisions, communicating review expectations, and making onboarding easier for newcomers.
https://allthingsopen.org/articles/what-contributors-need-before-taking-ownership
#WeLoveOpenSource #OpenSource #Maintainers #CommunityBuilding
Yes, the people are still there. We're #dispirited about the whole thing, but we want to take it back.
I've been thinking about this, and it seems to me one of the core problems is that we deliberately made our commons #stealable - and I mean before they started shoving our work into the slop machine's training. Our software #licenses by and large let them run our software for profit with no need to feed changes, improvements, or their individual Secret Sauce addons back to us.
And I think the #OSI's Open Source Definition (#OSD) is the core of that. We all wanted to be maximally free with our licenses, in general. The difference between a GPL-like license and an MIT-like license look big to us, but everything OSD-compliant is tucked away in a corner of the graph. The real variation is outside the OSD - way outside.
I think we may have to start #rebuilding by fundamentally rethinking our #licensing. "Free for any use" is "freedom to #exploit the #creators and #maintainers". Licenses that forbid certain uses, that forbid locking the software up behind a web API, that forbid locking users / customers into using one particular provider's hosting because their Secret Sauce is proprietary and incompatible, maybe licenses that forbid re-distribution of certain types of #modifications...
We may need to build a new #commons, and in a way that does not allow the vampires-with-lawyers to destroy it all again.
<thinking still in progress>
I've just written an article about taking a week off of open-source software support for the first time in 14 years, and trying to break an unhealthy habit of responsibility.
You can read it here – https://maddy.tech/week-off-open-source-support/ 😊
Is it time to rename “bus factor” to “SUV factor”? Because let’s be honest: if someone get hit by a motorized vehicle, it’s a SUV rather than a bus, isn’t it?
@bagder Big shout out to ALL maintainers of all the FOSS products that form the backbone of modern infrastructure.
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https://www.europesays.com/conflicts/18633/ Air Force Adjusts Maintenance Overhaul from 7 AFSCs to 14 #2ACareerField #AirForce #AirForceMaintainers #AircraftAvailability #AircraftMaintainers #maintainers #maintenance #USAirForce
A question for all the #maintainers out there: how long does it typically take until you find a bug in the latest #release of you #software?
🫶 As part of the @openjsf #CNA, we also want to encourage #maintainers, in our projects and beyond, to give themselves permission to take a break.
#Burnout is real for #maintainers, especially in #security work.
https://openjsf.org/blog/the-openjs-foundation-cna-is-taking-a-coordinated-break
Removing inactive maintainers guards your project from account takeover attacks. Create a kind, effective policy to avoid hurt feelings.
https://duckalignment.academy/inactive-maintainers/
IPFS Maintainers Winding Down
https://ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-the-end-of-ipfs-at-shipyard/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421489
#HackerNews #IPFS #Maintainers #Winding #Down #decentralization #IPFS #blockchain #technology #open-source #community #news
From From 5 to 500:, this talk by Celeste Horgan at #FOSSBack 2026 on "More than developers: growing your maintainer community" analyzes the challenges a project faces as it goes from a small team of developers to a diverse set of contributors.
If you missed it then, catch this session here now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZvnUgyuk8I
OpenMandriva's accused repo wrecker says it wasn't #sabotage – it was a message
source: theregister.com/os-platforms/2…
He acknowledged deleting the #GNOME and #COSMIC repositories from #GitHub, removing the corresponding packages from the Cooker #development branch, and publishing a package that obsoleted them. But he said the changes were intended as a protest after #maintainers removed #OneDev #configuration files from multiple #repositories without consulting him, effectively disabling work he had been doing on a new build and mirroring #infrastructure.
#news #linux #openmandriva #distro #distribution #foss #floss #dispute #development #developer #coder #coding #fail #problem #communication #repository #git #management #maintain #harm
I approve of the title -- "Slop study: As part of a broader series of projects to understand the impacts of AI on Open Source Software developer communities, we seek to interview open source maintainers." - https://wiki.communitydata.science/Slop_study #opensource #maintainers
The cost reality: $200/month = ~$15k/month at team scale. That bill comes due.
More soon on the @pyOpenSci blog. #OpenSource #AI #Maintainers #UNOpenSourceWeek
The #maintainathon is underway at #UNOpenSourceWeek 2026 in New York. For the second year, the Sovereign Tech Agency and the UN Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies are convening #opensource #maintainers and institutional actors to work on the challenge of maintaining increasingly complex critical digital systems.
For the second year, we are bringing a delegation of #OpenSource #maintainers to #UNOpenSourceWeek in New York.
The experts who actually build and maintain critical digital infrastructure are rarely represented in the international conversations about how that infrastructure is sustained and maintained.
This delegation will change that: bringing practitioner perspectives to our second annual #maintainathon and the full week of events, panels, and exchanges. https://www.sovereign.tech/news/un-open-source-week-2026-maintainer-delegation
Quiet shoutout to the people who keep #Postgres running.
The reviewers catching the edge case. The maintainers of the extension you've used in production for years and never thanked. The folks answering on the mailing list at 11pm so the next person searching that error finds the answer. The ones keeping the docs honest.
If you've got a minute today: send a thank-you, star a repo, reply to a thread.
The ecosystem runs on this. So does #pgEdge.
Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
A good chunk of the most-depended-on open source packages are dead, and there are a lot of different ways for a project to end up that way.
#opensource #maintainers #supplychain #pypi #python
https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/19/dumb-ways-for-an-open-source-project-to-die.html
@pythonbytes @mkennedy
I was kinda burnt-out at the end of last year. I felt like there's so much to do, yet too little to to tackle anything.
For the past two months, I've been experimenting with the "1% rule": instead of few heavy lifts, I did smaller things but like every day.
If you are an open source maintainer working with standards or want to help shape them, we encourage you to apply before the deadline.
Learn more and apply: https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/standards
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#SovereignTechAgency #DigitalInfrastructure #OpenStandards #FOSS #Maintainers
Final reminder: The deadline for applications to join the #SovereignTechStandards network is Tuesday, 19 May 2026, at 23:59 CEST.
Open standards shape the digital infrastructure we all rely on. But standards are only as good as the expertise behind them.
https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/standards
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#SovereignTechAgency #DigitalInfrastructure #OpenStandards #FOSS #Maintainers
#OpenSource used to mean trusting skilled developers to build and maintain good #software so others did not need to learn every language, tool, or best practice themselves.
Now, #SupplyChainAttack and #AISlop have made many projects harder to trust.
Too much software is rushed, poorly understood, or built for hype instead of quality.
#Developers now spend more time checking code, #dependencies, and #maintainers instead of simply building software.
#AI was supposed to reduce cognitive load😒
Open standards shape critical digital infrastructure. But the people implementing those standards are often missing from the processes that define them.
In a survey of over 150 #OpenSource #Maintainers, we found strong interest in standards participation and specific structural barriers to sustained engagement.
Learn more about what maintainers told us, and how the new #SovereignTechStandards network aims to close that gap. Applications are open until 19 May 2026!
Learn more and join the Sovereign Tech Standards network: https://www.sovereign.tech/news/join-sovereign-tech-standards-network
#SovereignTechAgency #DigitalInfrastructure #FOSS #Maintainers #FOSSJobs
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Auf unserem Blog findet ihr alle Infos zur Teilnahme am Sovereign Tech Standards Netzwerk: https://www.sovereign.tech/de/neuigkeiten/sovereign-tech-standards-network
#SovereignTechAgency #DigitalInfrastructure #FOSS #Maintainers #FOSSJobs
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I am so sick of maintaining LinkAce right now. The only feedback I get is stupid security vulnerabilities and why features are not being implemented.
I am just one click away from archiving the whole damn project. 🤬
Share this post or tag people who might be interested in the fellowship.
#DigitalInfrastructure #FOSS #Maintainers #Hiring #FOSSJobs
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Mit dem #SovereignTechFellowship investieren wir in die Menschen hinter dem Code. Denn digitale Infrastruktur braucht nicht nur offene Software, sondern auch starke Communities, klare Dokumentation und zuverlässige Instandhaltung.
➡️ Alle Infos zum Programm und zur Bewerbung findet ihr hier: https://www.sovereign.tech/de/neuigkeiten/fellowship-2026-jetzt-bewerben
Teilt den Beitrag gerne in euren Netzwerken oder markiert Personen, für die das Fellowship spannend sein könnte.
#DigitalInfrastructure #FOSS #Maintainers #Hiring #FOSSJobs
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The register is reporting that a bunch of major tech companies are throwing some parking meter money at Linux to "Fix the AI-slop"
Its worth a note at least.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/18/linux_foundation_ai_slop_defense/
Not sure how to react as::
- No Shit Bat-persons !
- This is not unlike the Nasty Orange Bloke paying a billion dollars into the "Fib Jar"
- - Its not nearly enough to cover the bullshit, but it does do a nice job of "green washing" the brand...
- It acknowledges the "problem".
(fucking disaster for Maintainers ... at least. )
- One chaps chump change is another's path to economic lock-in ...
-- Still , hopefully, they get way more than they pay for.
The Register cover it beter-er.
Every time that we use a #FreeSoftware project, especially the smaller ones, we should do our best to be thankful for the hard work that #maintainers do to keep it running: https://u.fsf.org/4ad #ILoveFS
Every time that we use a #FreeSoftware project, especially the smaller ones, we should do our best to be thankful for the hard work that #maintainers do to keep it running: https://u.fsf.org/4ad #ILoveFS
Every time that we use a #FreeSoftware project, especially the smaller ones, we should do our best to be thankful for the hard work that #maintainers do to keep it running: https://u.fsf.org/4ad #ILoveFS
