Growing a library ecosystem

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Describes building and maintaining multiple interlinked gems (examples: 25 libraries, dry‑rb’s dry-validation/dry-schema/dry-types chain) and concrete work: centralized CI and templated common files, tag‑driven releases and automated docs via GitHub Actions, and hard choices like when to merge rom core into rom gem to reduce maintenance. Explains testing against multiple dependency versions, documentation fragmentation, tricky versioning decisions, and shows that automation plus clear boundaries makes an ecosystem sustainable if growth happens naturally.

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1. 0:00Introduction and thanks
2. 1:50Open source timeline
3. 5:41What is a library ecosystem
4. 7:49Challenges in growing ecosystems
5. 13:04Maintenance tips for ecosystems
6. 23:23Is it worth the effort
7. 24:51Q&A and closing

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