# nayafia/awesome-maintainers

Talks, blog posts, and interviews about the experience of being an open source maintainer

Repository: https://github.com/nayafia/awesome-maintainers
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-maintainers
License: CC0-1.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: awesome, awesome-list
Last push: 2021-08-16T16:23:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3142, "days_push": 1843, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1170, forks 60 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:51.393488+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome-list of talks, blog posts, and interviews about the experience of being an open source maintainer. It collects first-person perspectives on maintenance work, community management, and burnout.

## Use cases
- learn what it's like to maintain an open source project
- find talks about open source maintainer burnout
- read interviews with maintainers of popular projects
- prepare to become an open source maintainer
- research open source sustainability and community health

## When to choose
- you want curated reading and talks about the maintainer experience
- you're considering starting or taking over an open source project
- you're researching open source community dynamics

## When to avoid
- you need tooling or software rather than articles and talks
- you want technical documentation for a specific project

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation
- domain: developer-tools, tutorials, awesome-lists
- platform: -
- tags: awesome-list, open-source-maintainers, community, burnout, talks, interviews, web-server

## Member repositories
- nayafia/awesome-maintainers (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:51.393488+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:28:38.030902+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nayafia/awesome-maintainers (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:51.393488+00:00, sha 5e608c9e3981)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.