1. EachPod

Ep02 - Ensuring longevity after unfortunate circumstances in OSS Projects with Gary Ewan Park

Author
Ashley Nicolson
Published
Mon 22 Jun 2020
Episode Link
https://scot-osum.gitlab.io/podcasts/2020/06/22/sosum-podcast-s01-ep02.html

It's a not a topic that us open source maintainers and contributors want to think about too often. What if I get hit by a bus tomorrow? What happens to my code and all the users that utilise it? In this episode we invite Gary Ewan Park, a senior software developer from the core team at the Chocolatey project, to talk about his experiences when the unfortunate situation of one of their package maintainers had sadly passed away. How the project had to approach this difficult situation, leading to the project to place mechanisms and structure in place to promote and ensure the longevity of their package maintainers code.

Share to: