Saving Sprockets

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Sprockets has over 44 million downloads and a single maintainer responsible for >70% of commits, so the project faces a maintenance crisis. Work described includes adding sprockets guides living in-source, shipping deprecations in 3.7, refactoring god-object logic into helper classes like a URI helper, and promoting contributions via CodeTriage.com. Concrete asks: file clear bug reports, include reproducible example apps, write docs, add tests and small refactor PRs to preserve history and grow new maintainers.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 7:59How Do We Keep a Maintainer Longer
3. 10:56Code Triage
4. 16:29What Is a Maintainer
5. 17:13Foster a Culture for Helping
6. 19:32Sprockets Guides
7. 20:10Extending Sprockets

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