Have you ever considered what would happen when a popular open source package is abandoned ? Now, what about when that package is one of your essential dependencies ?
This scenario is not some abstract scenario for a far away future. Projects get abandoned every day and your dependency might be next… But you can help!
Come & listen to some tales of an accidental maintainer and learn about what you can do to help try and prevent these situations from getting out of hand.
What you’ll learn in this session
What it means to be the maintainer of an open source project and how they can help prevent abandonment of projects.
Note: this talk is set up as a keynote talk