Filippo Valsorda 8/14/2025

Maintainers of Last Resort

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The article details how Geomys, an organization of professional open source maintainers, acts as a 'maintainer of last resort' for critical, security-relevant Go projects. It explains their sustainable funding model via retainer clients and provides two case studies: taking over the bluemonday HTML sanitizer library and creating solutions for the gorilla/csrf library after discovering a security vulnerability. It highlights the importance of professional maintenance for ecosystem security and reducing pressure on volunteer maintainers.

Maintainers of Last Resort

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