Maintainers

Maintainers play a crucial role in open source projects and serve as the backbone of the open source ecosystem, overseeing project development, managing contributions, and ensuring a project’s long-term health and sustainability. Explore maintainer spotlights that cover the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with maintaining open source projects. Get insights into effective project management, communication strategies, and community building techniques that help maintainers create a welcoming and productive environment for contributors. By highlighting the experiences and lessons learned from seasoned maintainers, we shine a light on some of the most important people in the open source community—and offer their experiences as lessons for other open source developers. You can also find information in our documentation around how to build and foster sustainable open source communities.

Maintainers

Let’s talk about securing open source projects

In celebrating GitHub Security Lab’s one-year anniversary, we explained that we’re expanding our research focus. Why did we make this decision? The decision stemmed from our work with the Open…

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GitHub Action Hero: Eyal Posener and “Go Action”

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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GitHub Action Hero: Shivam Mathur and “Setup PHP”

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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GitHub Action Hero · James Ives and “GitHub Pages Deploy”

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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GitHub Action Hero: Stefan Zweifel and “git-auto-commit”

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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GitHub Action Hero: Eddie Jaoude

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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GitHub Action Hero: Keirron Stach

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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Maintainer spotlight: Managing dependencies and the Metasploit pen testing toolkit

Keeping open source software secure is a community responsibility. But with millions of projects, it’s hard to pinpoint the right signal from noise—and find and fix the vulnerabilities that really…

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Introducing The ReadME Project

Open source powers software on a planetary scale: 99% of code is built on it. The rewards and challenges of creating open source are deeply familiar to the maintainers and…

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GitHub Action Hero – Daniel Dennis

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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GitHub Action Hero: Swechhya Bista

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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Maintainer spotlight: How to secure your project with one of the world’s top open source tools

Simon Bennetts is the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) Project Leader and a Distinguished Engineer at StackHawk, a company that uses ZAP to help users fix application security bugs before they hit production. Prior to making the move into security, he was a developer for 25 years and strongly believes that you can’t build secure web applications without knowing how to attack them.