ASasicsp·Nov 19, 2019Submission
List of talks, blog posts, and interviews about open source maintainers
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awesome-maintainers
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awesome-maintainers
Talks, blog posts, and interviews about the experience of being an open source maintainer
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2Mentions
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Talks, blog posts, and interviews about the experience of being an open source maintainer
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
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Mentions over time
HN mentions by month2 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2019-01-23 16:22:02 UTC to 2019-11-19 11:53:00 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Feb 2019 | 2019-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2019 | 2019-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2019 | 2019-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2019 | 2019-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2019 | 2019-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2019 | 2019-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2019 | 2019-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2019 | 2019-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2019 | 2019-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2019 | 2019-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesI'll add another attribute: popularity. I maintained a fork of a script that was rather complex, but had close to no feature requests and a handful of minor bugs. On the other hand, there is a ton of great research on burnout due to its prevalence.
One of the maintainers of some great projects wrote about taking an "indefinite sabbatical" - https://arslan.io/2018/10/09/taking-an-indefinite-sabbatical.... He gets at the commitment in more detail.
The most complete resource I've found, on the good and bad, is @nayafia's Awesome Maintainers: https://github.com/nayafia/awesome-maintainers
In Ask HN: What's the overhead of forking and maintaining an open-source project?