Open-source without Burnout? The CNCF Model

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Analyzes how CNCF-style governance and practices enable large-scale open-source projects to avoid maintainer burnout and stay stable. Uses OpenTelemetry as a concrete case study, examining its multi-language SDKs, contributor processes, standards alignment, and community structure to show how thousands of developers and many companies collaborate and maintain the project.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 4:20Burnout in open source
3. 11:46OpenTelemetry project
4. 23:20OpenTelemetry specs and governance
5. 29:41Project governance
6. 33:31Sustainable open source
7. 40:06Sustaining projects
8. 44:20Conclusion

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