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The burden of an Open Source maintainer

Or: Why can't you just merge my ten-line PR already? I maintain over 200 open source projects. Apparently (this is news to me) I am ranked in the top 200 GitHub users by followers, and there are 18,000 forks and 42,000 stars across my repos. On an average day, I see between 50-100 emails across my repositories for…
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Jan 10, 2022The burden of an Open Source maintainer by geerlingguy12682

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