Research Study Interview: The Work of Maintaining Open Source Software

1 · Mike McQuaid · May 20, 2019, midnight
I was recently interviewed as part of a research study into the work of maintaining open-source software. I asked if I could make the (lightly edited) transcript public and they agreed. This will be an interesting read for anyone interested in some of the deeper questions about maintaining a project like Homebrew for 10 years. What are the open source projects that you regularly contribute to? The main one would be a project called Homebrew: it’s a Mac package manager. And then, there’s some ...