Resurrecting the Dead - Speaker Deck

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Resurrecting the Dead Tales of an accidental maintainer Juliette Reinders Folmer Vera Kratochvil

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Accidental Maintainer ? ▪ Requests with Alain Schlesser ▪ PHP Parallel Lint with Václav Makeš Linnaea Mallette

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Take Over Community Pressure  Fix CI ✓ Submit Patch 

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Accidental Maintainer ? ▪ Requests with Alain Schlesser ▪ PHP Parallel Lint with Václav Makeš ▪ PHP_CodeSniffer ©Tristan Elwell

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You Did What Now ? Linnaea Mallette

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How Does This Happen ? kai Stachowiak

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Linnaea Mallette & Circe Denyer

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Reasons For Abandoning A Popular Project Life happens kai Stachowiak

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Maintainer Burnout vintagevivids

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Now What ?

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New admin Transfer the repo Fork the repo Let it die Resurrection Scenarios

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What Does it Mean to Be a Maintainer ? Petr Kratochvil

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“If something "just" works, it generally means someone in the background is putting a sh*tload of effort into it to keep it running smoothly. Linnaea Mallette

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Maintaining: Keeping Things Running

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Maintaining: Envision The Future

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Open For All: Bug Fixes and New Features

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Preventing Abandonment Petr Kratochvil

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Healthy vs Unhealthy Projects

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Succession Management ▪ Document ▪ Activate ▪ Identify ▪ Coach ▪ Validate ▪ Promote ▪ Funding! Nicky Pe

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Keys to the Castle ▪ Repo ▪ GH Organisation ▪ Packagist ▪ Access to domains/DNS ▪ Open Collective ▪ Social Media Accounts ▪ Etc George Hodan

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Best Practices & Lessons Learnt for popular open source projects Vera Kratochvil

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“Apparently, it is perfectly acceptable for companies and governments to demand that open source software used by millions complies with QA standards, security protocols etc, but it is still regarded as unseemly when the maintainers of that same software ask to be paid… Petr Kratochvil

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Funding is not Optional

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Do's ▪ Set up Funding Channels ▪ Dedicated Organisation ▪ Contributing Guide ▪ PRs & Protected Branches ▪ Expand CI/QA ▪ Signalling via Labels ▪ Close Quickly Linnaea Mallette

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Lessons Learnt Off-GH Contact Pace Yourself Stick to Your Plan Say NO (a lot)

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Struggles ▪ Slow turn-around on feedback ▪ "good enough" ▪ Lonely ▪ I don't know everything… Michal Spisak

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PHP_CodeSniffer: Where Are We Now ? Vera Kratochvil

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Is PHP_CodeSniffer Still Alive ? 2023 2024

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Is PHP_CodeSniffer Still Alive ?

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PHP_CodeSniffer Wins ▪ 11 releases ▪ Runtime support for PHP 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 ▪ Syntax support for PHP 8.2, 8.3 ▪ Performance improvements ▪ Test Coverage +10% Vera Kratochvil

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PHP_CodeSniffer Wins ▪ New Sniff x 3 ▪ New Performance report ▪ Ability to Deprecate Sniffs ▪ Revamped Help screen ▪ Sniff Documentation Vera Kratochvil

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How You Can Help Know Your Dependencies Contribute Funding

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