Maintainer Month with Martin Woodward and Immo Landwerth
June is GitHub Maintainer Month - have you hugged an open-source project maintainer lately? Carl and Richard talk to Martin Woodward and Immo Landwerth about what it's like to be a maintainer of open-source projects. Often an open-source project starts as something you want for yourself and choose to share - and then others start to use your project and life gets more complicated. The conversation dives into what its like for a full-time employee to contribute to a project maintained by someone working part-time on it, the challenges around licensing, and how the open-source community continues to evolve - hopefully for the better!
Guests:
Martin Woodward
Martin Woodward is the Director of Developer Relations at GitHub where he helps developers and open source communities to create delightful things. Prior to that, he was part of the team at Microsoft building the tooling for DevOps teams inside and outside the company where he helped change how the company built software. He also helped change how they work with open source communities by creating the Microsoft org on GitHub and helping to set up the .NET Foundation
Immo Landwerth
Immo Landwerth is working as a program manager at Microsoft on the .NET platform. This includes the base class libraries, the portability mechanisms and open source.
Links:
- NaughtyStrings https://github.com/SimonCropp/NaughtyStrings
- Maintainer Month on GitHub https://maintainermonth.github.com/
- Exit and Voice in Open Source Software https://catern.com/exitvoice.html
- Rob Mensching's philosophy of reciprocal licenses https://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2020/7/16/the-decline-of-reciprocal-licenses-through-corporate-leadership/
- gRPC for .NET https://github.com/grpc/grpc-dotnet