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

The very first person I brought on to the jQuery project wasn’t another developer to help contribute . . . . It was someone to help manage our community. Because we were just getting so much feedback, so many issues coming in, and so many people using us, we needed a way to kind of keep track of it all, and ensure that people’s concerns were being heard. And so being able to kind of delegate some of that responsibility meant that I could spend more time focusing on writing code.