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Software Stewardship Lab

@stewardshiplab.org

A non-profit applied research lab ensuring the stability of the Open Source software ecosystem we all rely on. ✸ https://stewardshiplab.org

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Open Source Pledge ⇌@opensourcepledge.com · 5d ago

Package managers support our world's infrastructure, but those who build them have more work on their plate then ever. Companies who rely on this work for their revenue should give something back. It's in these companies' interest to keep this tech sustainable.

Packagist@packagist.com · 6d ago

Composer & Packagist now have a sponsorship program. Thank you to our launch sponsors 🤝 Aikido, AWS, Socket, Bunny, Upsun, Sonatype, Tideways, Datadog and Algolia help fund our shared infrastructure. blog.packagist.com/announcing-... #php #phpc #composerphp

Jacob Asper@jacobasper.com · 7d ago

We’ve saved hundreds of gigabytes of bandwidth per month so far! Reach out if you’re interested in helping! We help with outreach, repo modernization, analysis infra, and data analysis

~paul@paulvall.dev · 7d ago

new @e18e.dev effort just kicked off: dieting rust crates 🦀 huge thanks to @jacobasper.com for starting this. we're using the lean crate cargo diet to trim packaged crate sizes across the ecosystem tracking issue: github.com/e18e/ecosystem-issues/issues/280

Dr. Dawn Foster@geekygirldawn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Loving the shares from the back catalog of #FOSSBack! This talk about recruiting contributors from 2023 is particularly relevant today with so many maintainers overworked and burning out. Related: this lovely report on maintainer burnout from @mirandaheath.website stewardshiplab.org/reports/burn...

Burnout in Open Source: A Structural Problem We Can Fix Together ✸ Software Stewardship Lab

Burnout is affecting the entire Open Source ecosystem. Here's what we could do to make things better.

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FOSS Backstage@foss-backstage.de · 2w ago

This is another session from our Human Factor track by Dawn Foster at #FOSSBack 2023 on "Contributor Growth Strategies for OSS Projects." A talk on how to build a long-term contributor strategy and measuring community sustainability over time. Watch the recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=...

Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸@vlad.website · 2mo ago

A new report from Bloomberg explains why companies should move “from passive consumption to active stewardship” of the Open Source packages they rely on: “you cannot have sustainable code without sustaining the humans who write it (…) if you live in the house, you help fix the roof”.

Open Source and the Iceberg Theory | Queue

Why “dependency management” isn’t enough anymoreThe traditional model of passive consumption is fundamentally unsustainable. In an era of AI-generated code and increasing supply-chain attacks, steward...

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Vlad-Stefan Harbuz 🌸@vlad.website · 3mo ago

OSS burnout claims another project. On 2 Apr, an entitled user angrily asked the burned-out maintainer of nvim-treesitter to “go switch to something that doesn't require interacting with people”. The maintainer replied “OK” — and archived the repo, stopping development of nvim-treesitter.

Open Source Burnout Claims Another Project

Yet another OSS maintainer quits because of burnout. To fix this, we need better mental health resources for maintainers.

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Software Stewardship Lab@stewardshiplab.org · 3mo ago

Open Source maintainers need funding. But this means we also need to pay the researchers who create the very tools that allow companies to discover and pay the maintainers they depend on. Research on sustainability should itself be sustainable — otherwise, we'll struggle to get off the ground!

patak@patak.cat · 3mo ago

A very telling chart. Open Source funding has been frozen for the past four years, while everyone's needs for our shared commons infrastructure have continued to grow exponentially. Pay maintainers properly if you want your dependencies to stop feeling like a minefield.