Browse good first issues to start contributing to open source
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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.
How we built the good first issues feature
We’ve recently launched good first issues recommendations to help new contributors find easy gateways into open source projects. Read about the machine learning engine behind these recommendations.
Maintainer spotlight: Chrissy LeMaire
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, hear from Chrissy LeMaire.
Maintainer spotlight: Daniel Stenberg
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, hear from Daniel Stenberg.
FAQ with the GitHub Sponsors team
Hello, this is Devon from the GitHub Sponsors Team! It’s been incredibly motivating for us to see the outpouring of enthusiasm for the launch and to hear your ideas for where you’d like to see it go from here. We’re just getting started, and your input is important to keep us going in the right direction.
Maintainer spotlight: Sage Griffin
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Siân Griffin.
Maintainer spotlight: Mariatta Wijaya
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Mariatta Wijaya.
Maintainer spotlight: Safia Abdalla
In the spirit of Black History Month, throughout February we’re featuring Black maintainers who are making impactful contributions to the world through open source.
New tools for open source maintainers
We’re making it easier for maintainers to grow healthy open source communities on GitHub with minimized comments, retired namespaces for popular projects, and new pull request requirements.
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