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Employing a maintainer inside a large company breaks down exactly when the project succeeds: the workload grows while its value to the employer stays flat.
Drawn from what Filippo Valsorda said
Subjectopen source
What Filippo Valsorda actually said
- Filippo Valsorda Cryptographer, formerly of the Go team at Google
As a project gets more popular in the ecosystem, the workload increases but the value of that project for the company stays the same, so resources don’t increase accordingly.
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↗I’m Now a Full-Time Professional Open Source Maintainerwords.filippo.io
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