Oops! I Became an Open Source Maintainer! 😱
summary
First contribution in 2016 leads to commit rights to CPython and to python.org; work focuses on documentation, issue triage, and reviewing PRs rather than hundreds of lone code patches. python.org is built with Django, used to get comfortable before touching CPython. Maintainer duties include moderating, enforcing code of conduct, rejecting PRs for long‑term maintenance cost, and dealing with inboxes of hundreds of messages so much that one took a month off for burnout. Funding options listed: GitHub Sponsors, Tidelift, Patreon, Mozilla grants.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:20What is a Python Core Developer
- 2:26How did it happen
- 3:09What motivated me
- 7:09Early mentorship advice
- 9:00Contributing to other projects
- 14:46Studying as a new developer
- 18:17What happened when I became a maintainer
- 23:38Mistakes I made
- 26:41Why I continue
- 30:25Advice
- 35:09Sprints
- 37:13Funding
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