Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Highlight

Open source maintainers have become the de facto teachers for developers who are learning how to contribute. In the past, this made sense when new developers were trying to join a project’s community. Today, rehashing the basics to a revolving door of strangers can be fatiguing: death by a thousand paper cuts. Developer Nolan Lawson describes his experience as “a perverse effect where, the more successful you are, the more you get ‘punished’ with GitHub notifications.”