Open Source Maintenance
The Ragged-Trousered Maintainers
Open source sustainability in an age of unpaid critical infrastructure
Devastating on the subject of enterprises that discover community only when the build fails.
Tressell applies his eye for labour, obligation, and cheerful exploitation to open source software. From maintainer burnout to funding models, governance, issue triage, and corporate dependency, this is a practical handbook for projects that would like to remain alive.
Contents
- The Great Money Trick, Now with Dependencies
- Triage as a Form of Manual Labour
- Governance Without a Benevolent Ghost
- Funding the Library Everyone Imports
Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.
This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.
