tante on Nostr: This interview with Linus Torvalds on the qualities that maintainers need (in ...
This interview with Linus Torvalds on the qualities that maintainers need (in contrast to developers) and maintainer fatigue summarizes a few things I keep bringing up:
- maintenance is not "bugfixing" as a lesser/different kind of coding, it's about experience, about having done a lot of things to give context to what you are seeing and to have some understanding of what second order consequences a choice might have
- maintenance is about collaboration and cooperation with others, about bridging gaps between contributors and their goals
I'd have added that maintenance is #care work: Caring about and for the project/product and its development and sustainability, caring about and for the social structure that the project/product is built upon, caring about the people who will be using the product/project or who will otherwise be affected.
#Maintenance doesn't work without empathy, about thinking through long term consequences.
Move slow and fix stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWfUaFNSPhM
- maintenance is not "bugfixing" as a lesser/different kind of coding, it's about experience, about having done a lot of things to give context to what you are seeing and to have some understanding of what second order consequences a choice might have
- maintenance is about collaboration and cooperation with others, about bridging gaps between contributors and their goals
I'd have added that maintenance is #care work: Caring about and for the project/product and its development and sustainability, caring about and for the social structure that the project/product is built upon, caring about the people who will be using the product/project or who will otherwise be affected.
#Maintenance doesn't work without empathy, about thinking through long term consequences.
Move slow and fix stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWfUaFNSPhM