Keygen reposted this
This is why we are launching the Open Source Pledge, we need a culture change in the industry to truly solve the maintainer burnout crisis. We soft-launched less than two weeks ago, and today Keygen became our 10th member company. We are building up to a major media campaign launching on October 8—three SF billboards, Nasdaq Tower in Times Square, digital marketing. Does your company support Open Source, through Tidelift or otherwise? Join us to make a statement that others should, too. osspledge.com/join
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Last Friday multiple high-profile examples of open source maintainers quitting or considering quitting (Rust in the kernel maintainer, a code teaching site maintainer, and a kernel docs maintainer) all came across my radar. I mentioned this news in Tidelift chat and voila, this graph appeared—a sneak peak from our upcoming maintainer survey. The unfortunate summary: maintainers quitting (or thinking about it) is super-common, with 60% of maintainers either having done or it at least thought about it. There's no magic bullet (not even Tidelift!) but we have to center this in our discussions of the future of open source.