Kent C. Dodds 11/1/2017

Becoming an Open Source Project Maintainer

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This article provides practical advice for becoming an open source project maintainer. The author, an experienced maintainer, explains that the best path is to start contributing to a project you regularly use. By actively helping with issues, making pull requests, improving documentation, and reviewing code, you demonstrate maintainer qualities. The author shares his personal story of being granted maintainer access to angular-formly and emphasizes that you don't need permission to start acting like a maintainer.

Becoming an Open Source Project Maintainer

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