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Three years ago, I was part of a team responsible for developing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters for end user customers. A main source for downtime in customer environments occurred when image registries went down. The traditional way to solve this problem is to set up a stateful mirror, however we had to work within customer budget and time constraints which did not allow it. During a Black Friday, we started getting hit with a ton of traffic while GitHub container registries were down. This limited our ability to scale up the cluster as we depended on critical images from that registry. After this incident, I started thinking about a better way to avoid these scalability issues. A solution that did not need a stateful component and required minimal operational oversight. This is where the idea for Spegel came from.

It's easy to forget how much work it is when someone is paying you

Something they don't tell you about being heavily involved in an open source project is that even when you're unemployed, there are a thousand emails and slack messages you still have to answer and so, so many meetings

Work for free and in return watch your passion get crushed by entitled users who are never satisfied

Open source business models are hard. A question I often get it why is it even open source? Here are some of my thoughts on that, and reasons why

Attached: 1 image I love being an open source maintainer, we get the best email from only the most delightful people. 🙃 . (maybe i should just switch to macOS and stop caring about linux 🙃 )

Microsoft is experimenting with and investing in sustainability of the open source ecosystem sponsorships. Learn more.

Announcing Geomys, a small firm of professional maintainers with a portfolio of critical Go projects.

After signing up for GitHub Sponsors, I had a nagging feeling that somehow asking for money from other people to support my open source work was inappropriate. But after much reflection, I realized that phrasing the use of GitHub Sponsors as a way to express patronage/support and appreciation for

A JavaScript library maintainer is under fire after merging a controversial PR to support legacy versions of Node.js.

Will Yaak be open source? The short answer is no, there are no plans of going open source. Instead, Yaak will…

Attached: 1 image Tips to prevent maintainer burnout from the beautiful soup maintainer. A single maintainer managing a package will millions of users *ask users to contribute issues before a pr * practice defensive programming. Use warnings to point to common user mistakes #pyconus #python #opensource

With the recent xz hack in the news, it's crucial to support maintainers of open source projects. Fastly has been doing just that with our open source program, Fast Forward.

A short document describing how I maintain open source projects. It talks about how I prefer issues to PRs, how I work in batches, and how I'm trigger-happy with bans. It's all about setting expectations.

Originally a thread on Twitter about the xz/liblzma vulnerability, when I finished typing it, I realized I had a real world slice of Open Source interaction that deserved more attention.

The topic of Polyfill.io and its sale came across my radar about a week ago when Tobie Langel shared...

When I started writing and publishing open-source software about 15 years ago, I was pretty radical about it. I only used permissive licenses like MIT or BSD, as all I cared about was reach. Using a copyleft license with strings attached seemed to hinder that reach. Getting another A-category company

“Open Source Economics” and the “Open Source Economy” are regularly discussed in the context of how to improve open source software’s sustainability, contributor diversity and ecosystem quality. Too often, though, the use of the word “economics” brings incorrect assumptions about the problems to be solved.