Once a Maintainer: Sean Law

The creator of STUMPY, a performant time series data analysis library in Python.

Once a Maintainer: André Luis Cardoso Jr.

Mentoring the next generation of open source contributors

Once a Maintainer: Armin Ronacher

The creator of Flask on the role of the package index and how things have changed over time for open source creators.

Once a Maintainer: Bryan Housel

Mapping the world with Open Street Map, and why "spatial is special".

Once a Maintainer: Jeremy Smith

Keeping (Indie)Rails alive

Once a Maintainer: Santiago Pastorino

Working on the Rust compiler

Once a Maintainer: Marc-André Lafortune

On the abstract syntax tree and rewiring Rubocop.

Once a Maintainer: Mike McQuaid

15 years of Homebrew

Once a Maintainer: Rafael França

The Rails Core member on new releases and balancing pushing the community forward with stability.

Once a Maintainer: Ed Waisanen and Nate Papes

On Gala, an open source platform for collaborative research and learning.

Once a Maintainer: Nate Berkopec

The Puma maintainer on becoming the go-to for performance.

Once a Maintainer: William Woodruff

The security engineer on meeting engineers where they are, and what keeps him up at night.

Identifying unmaintained open source packages at scale

Migrating from rest-client to faraday

Undocumented Gem Incompatibilities with Rails 7.1

How To Stop Punting Upgrades

Infield's Data Pipeline

Avoiding Breakage with Deprecation Warnings

Defining a Dependency Management Policy

Best practices from helping companies effectively manage dependencies

The Limitations of Dependabot

While Dependabot is useful, it's not a complete solution for dependency management

Upgrading Rails at Alice

How Infield enabled Alice to upgrade Rails safely and efficiently

Introducing Infield

Our vision for open source upgrades

Migrating away from marginalia for query comments under Rails 8

Migrating to ActiveRecord QueryLogs

Deprecation Monitoring

Monitor for deprecation warnings at runtime.