What Filippo Valsorda thinks about design

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Cryptographer, formerly of the Go team at Google, and since 2022 a full-time professional open source maintainer. He maintains the Go cryptography libraries, age and mkcert, and founded Geomys, a firm of professional maintainers funded by retainers from the companies that depend on their projects. Writes at words.filippo.io.

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1. 17 Mar 2022

   Our readingFunding should pay for maintenance, not features, because every new feature adds to the burden the money was meant to relieve.

   Their wordsFinally, the health of the project depends on issue triage, bug fixes, refactors, and design work more than on new features. In fact, new features increase the maintenance burden.

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