Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software

Maintainers frequently lack infrastructure to bring these contributors into a “contributor community”;

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

rely on platforms—namely, GitHub—and tools—such as bots that help with managing issues, notifications, and code quality—to keep up with their work.

Maintainers simply don’t have the energy to onboard every person who shows passing interest.