Engineering posts
Burnout is real for open source maintainers
- Category: Engineering post
- Status: discussion
- Sources: OpenJS Foundation post, HN
- Summary: An OpenJS Foundation conversation with maintainer John-David Dalton covers maintainer burnout, the load of security and supply-chain expectations, and sustainability of widely depended-on packages.
- Why it matters: Maintainer capacity is a direct input to the security and reliability of the dependency graph most software ships on.