So you've become a FOSS-Maintainer - Lessons learned from ~6 years of maintaining HedgeDoc (gpn24)

So you've become a FOSS-Maintainer - Lessons learned from ~6 years of maintaining HedgeDoc (gpn24)

Author: CCC media team June 5, 2026 Duration: 56:03
Erik and Molly (among others) became HedgeDoc maintainers during the pandemic. They started a complete rewrite of the project almost immediately and learned FOSS maintenance the hard way. In this talk they'll present some lessons learned, so that others might have a better starting point. Now that you are a FOSS maintainer (or are aiming to become one) several questions might come to your mind. - What's maintaining like? - What can I do to make my life easier? - How do I manage the community? - How do I keep the motivation high? - How can I prevent burnout? - What's the important stuff that suddenly needs to be handled? We were at the same point, but after six years continuous maintenance of a reasonably big FOSS project, we've come to some answers that we'd like to share with you. Expect some honest answers, funny anecdotes and hard learned lessons. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ about this event: https://cfp.gulas.ch/gpn24/talk/V9WEYQ/

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