Increasingly, our online worlds are being built by individuals, not just communities.‡

Source by an Accidental Revolutionary,”

“The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open

Open source developers write and publish their code in public. They enjoy months, maybe years, in the spotlight. But, eventually, popularity offers diminishing returns. If the value of maintaining code fails to outpace the rewards, many of these developers quietly retreat to the shadows.

sifting through the noise of interactions, such as user questions, bug reports, and feature requests, which compete for their attention.

Code, like any other type of content available online today, is trending toward modularity:

This distribution—where one or a few developers do most of the work, followed by a long tail of casual contributors, and many more passive users—is now the norm, not the exception, in open source.

these maintainers are defined by the need for curation:

02: THE STRUCTURE OF AN OPEN SOURCE