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If you follow the Jekyll community, you might have noticed that I haven’t been as active in the last year or two. Part of this is due to life events usurping my free time, and part of this is something else entirely: paralysis. I want to discuss today the paralysis. Ask any open source maintainer what their job description is, and you’ll likely hear about reviewing patches sent from community contributors as a major responsibility of a maintainer. Maintainers are gatekeepers: they decide what co...