Politics in open source is inescapable. As soon as two or more people interact, politics becomes a consideration.

The best way to setup a kanban board is whatever way works best for you. If you’re not sure what that is, I have considerations for you.

Bad PR doesn’t have to kill your project. Recent events suggest that maybe there really is no such thing as bad publicity.

If automated CI tests are both a way to measure trust and a vector for attack, what’s the responsible maintainer to do?

At SCaLE 23x, I’ll debut “You’d better start believing in supply chains because you’re in one.” This talk started as a silly joke, but it covers a serious and timely topic.

Open source communities run on trust. But what does “trust” mean, how do you measure it, and what do you do with it?

The whole point of adding community members is to change the community in some beneficial way. Being welcoming takes active, ongoing effort.

If you can cut a word or phrase without losing clarity, do it.

There are valid reasons to hesitate about having “public” conversations, and it’s a hard skill to build, but the effort is worthwhile.

A label that you don’t use complicates the experience. A label that you’re not consistent in using will lead to unreliable analysis data.