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Reflections on Maintaining Open Source Software
- 16 November 2024
It’s hard to believe it’s been a full year now since I was given the chance to become a maintainer of Manim, a python animations library. I’ve learned a lot through that time, about open source and communities, so here goes my attempt at writing down most of the stuff I’ve learned!
As a maintainer of the project, you’re sort of the face to the code. You represent the direction the code will go, and the views of the project. For me, this resulted in a lot of interesting encounters that forced me to reevaluate the way I look at feedback.