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

Given limited time and attention, solo maintainers need to balance reactive tasks (community interactions) with proactive ones (writing code).

Hackers are characterized by bravado, showmanship, mischievousness, and a deep mistrust of authority.

02: THE STRUCTURE OF AN OPEN SOURCE

first improving their distribution,

Code, like any other type of content available online today, is trending toward modularity:

Source by an Accidental Revolutionary,”

If you consume any content on the Internet, you’re mostly consuming content created by people who for some reason spend most of their time and energy creating content on the Internet. And those people clearly differ from the general population in important ways.11

how our economy might reorient itself around individual creators and the platforms upon which they build.

rely on platforms—namely, GitHub—and tools—such as bots that help with managing issues, notifications, and code quality—to keep up with their work.

Platforms deliver value to third parties that build on top of them,