Maintaining the Maintainers

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Maintainers face burnout and underfunding and the talk gives actionable fixes: document roles, define maintainers, record demos, and teach one‑to‑many rather than hoard knowledge. Highlights include a $9M GCP donation with a $3M/year stipend and Kubernetes running over that allotment by more than $600,000 this year, plus tools like scorecard and All-Star to enforce policies. Practical maxims: don't lick the cookies, scale yourself, use contributing.md and maintaining.md.

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