Scotland Open Source talks to maintainers, advocates and companies from Scotland’s vibrant open source community. Hosted by Ashley Nicolson, we have in-depth conversations on all aspects of open source often from the different perspective of working full-time in its communities. We also help promote our guests and their projects and generally discuss the importance and impact of open source in the Scottish tech industry. Scotland Open Source podcast is part of Scotland Open Source Users Meetups.
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Scotland Open Source talks to maintainers, advocates and companies from Scotland’s vibrant open source community. Hosted by Ashley Nicolson, we have in-depth conversations on all aspects of open source often from the different perspective of working full-time in its communities. We also help promote our guests and their projects and generally discuss the importance and impact of open source in the Scottish tech industry. Scotland Open Source podcast is part of Scotland Open Source Users Meetups.
Ep06 - Supporting FOSS Maintainers, handling conflict, Homebrew & Software Freedom Conservancy with Mike McQuaid
Scotland Open Source
60 minutes 4 seconds
4 years ago
Ep06 - Supporting FOSS Maintainers, handling conflict, Homebrew & Software Freedom Conservancy with Mike McQuaid
On this episode we welcome Mike McQuaid, a long standing maintainer (10+ years) and project lead of Homebrew. We talk about Mike’s journey of becoming a maintainer and how he manages to sustain a healthy relationship with his project and it’s community by establishing a good work life balance and having a clear definition of a maintainer’s responsibilities. As a strong advocate for supporting maintainers Mike describes how he and Homebrew’s team of maintainers deal with the negativity of both the job and certain members of the community by the use of tools, bots and a supportive approach to day to day working with one another. We also talk about Homebrew’s progression to becoming a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy and the benefits it brings to both the project and those involved.
Scotland Open Source
Scotland Open Source talks to maintainers, advocates and companies from Scotland’s vibrant open source community. Hosted by Ashley Nicolson, we have in-depth conversations on all aspects of open source often from the different perspective of working full-time in its communities. We also help promote our guests and their projects and generally discuss the importance and impact of open source in the Scottish tech industry. Scotland Open Source podcast is part of Scotland Open Source Users Meetups.
