Becoming A Software Maintainer: Day-to-Day Tasks And Best Practices
Day-to-day tasks of a maintainer include code review, quality control, testing & stability, documentation, operational best practices, community management & engagement.
So far in this series, we’ve explored maintainership from a high level understanding of what’s required, why you should consider it, and how to get started. But what are the day-to-day tasks of a maintainer? The first project I actively maintained was something that I hadn’t initially considered for open source contributions. It was open sourced, but I didn’t anticipate anyone contributing but me. When I was encouraged to share it with contributors during Hacktoberfest a couple of years ago, I had to make some updates so people understood what the purpose of the project was, how to run it, an...