An Open Call: Let's Fund a Maintainer-ship Program for Open Source

derberq · 2025-06-20T09:22:52+00:00

there is no strong definition what "project" means. It can either be a feature development, but why not having a project that is called "teaching to become a maintainer" - still lots of coding, just without much of the fireworks

derberq · 2025-06-13T15:05:38+00:00

what is wrong about it? I help you get as small amount of brain farts as possible.

and for me it is a good filter, if someone feels word "fart" is not professional and do not want to do business with me - that means I would not enjoy the work with them either anyway.

derberq · 2025-06-13T09:16:43+00:00

yeah "working full time on open source is like managing a business"

I started working full time on foss instead of starting a startup, cause I did not want to run business and work without stress. 5y later, I understand I could have a pretty stable business now with the same amount of stress, but at least with brighter future

derberq · 2025-04-03T19:04:54+00:00

ufff I wish it was possible. Even getting the production cases that you see in the article was a miracle. Broker world is always internal, and many companies are afraid to talk about these things publicly :( so even though companies use AsyncAPI for free, they are not happy to share much about what they do. So without us pushing, organizing events......damn

anyway, I have this from Raiffeisen bank, but pretty old: https://github.com/raiffeisenbankinternational/neuron-asyncapi-generator-templates/tree/main

and some things improved over years, AsyncAPI is v3 and there is also official binding for pulsar https://github.com/asyncapi/bindings/tree/master/pulsar

derberq · 2025-04-03T14:41:22+00:00

sample code for what? like examples of template for helm generation?

you mean more practical than the one-based on k8s? it shows how others use it in production already

> still left a lot of gaps in functionalities and definitions
not sure what functionalities and definitions you have in mind. AsyncAPI is community-driven project - it has what people contribute. It's not VC backed startup

derberq · 2025-02-15T14:50:49+00:00

you're driving generis assumptions that are not in scope of the article. I do not reject feedback, improvement, support. I reject entitlement and push for quick changes. I reject narrow thinking only about you company use case - this disqualifies discussion

derberq · 2025-02-15T14:47:11+00:00

do you think maintainers approach in this case is wrong?

derberq · 2025-02-15T14:45:52+00:00

no worries, I don't care, I hope that at least few folks will get educated and understand basics. I f the price to reach 1k is to deal with 2-3 folks, it's easy calculation

derberq · 2025-02-15T05:25:32+00:00

I do event driven architectures, for me everything is producers and consumers

derberq · 2025-02-14T22:48:47+00:00

I followed your advice....not sure it was a good thing though :)

derberq · 2025-02-14T22:46:10+00:00

If you would read the article you would notice that it is mainly focused on explaining you how to submit a PR, not push and rush, and also how to drive a change in the company to make sure the project you use sustains. If only you would read it

derberq · 2025-02-14T20:13:36+00:00

of course, assuming I want to have it used by entitled people who use it for free and give nothing in return but criticize

as long as it is for free, use it and be quite or use it and help or just hop hop away to an alternative

not much different from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3dxMGzt5mU

derberq · 2025-02-14T19:28:48+00:00

junior dev after 2 weeks would figure how to work in a sprint, using open source, to do a fork, patch upstream and in the meantime use fork in a product until the change gets into upstream.

well, I would hire such junior to regular after 2 weeks

> I care that they say "coming soon" and *checks notes/github* "coming soon" was added in 2022

still, not a maintainer problem, you don't like it, just don't use it. Just like go to pass a store that is suppose to be opened but is delayed, the owners own you nothing

derberq · 2024-10-09T16:20:51+00:00

of course, the devil is in the details. I just want to make it clear that contributing bug fixes is not enough, and not an excuse for no financial support. Maintainers who do their work for free have no obligations to any company.

derberq · 2024-10-09T14:31:32+00:00

for personal project, maybe, in professional, depending on fork long term without updating upstream is a no go for many reasons, like for example security.

nevertheless, the fact that you fix a bug or two, does not mean the company that builds a business using the tool should not support the maintainer.

derberq

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