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Description
Presented by
Santosh Yadav, Developer, Angular and GitHub Star
Sid Chatterjee, Maintainer @ GatsbyJS
Shikha Mishra, Maintainer @ Magento
Across the world, developers contribute important work to all kinds of open source projects. While this work doesn't always begin as a passion project for many of them, it often becomes one, especially when they become recognized maintainers. In this panel discussion, Santosh Yadav, a GitHub Star, chats with two such maintainers from Gatsby and Magento to unveil their journey of becoming maintainers, how they collaborate with contributors and peers, and their advice for developers and contributors on their open source journey.
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A
A
B
A
Yeah
hi
so
shikha
and
both
are
maintaining
a
two
large
open
source
projects
you
which
you
might
have
heard
about,
or
you
might
have
used
it
as
well,
so
they
are,
they
rep.
They
maintain
gatsby
and
magento
as
full-time
maintainers.
So
it
will
be
interesting
to
learn
about
how
they
started
their
journey
and
then
the
tips
which
they
have
to
share
to
new
maintainers
or
the
developers
who
wants
to
get
started
with
open
source
projects
and
want
to
become
a
maintainer.
A
C
Yeah
definitely,
I
said
again
and
I'm
shikha
mishra
and
I'm
from
kushinagar
uttar
pradesh,
and
I
have
done
my
schooling
from
kushinagar
only
and
for
my
graduation
in
b
tech.
I
have
done
it
from
srmce
cem
lucknow
and
after
doing
my
graduation,
I
joined
the
company,
which
is
said,
cos
technologies
at
its
very
early
stage
and
there
I
was
working
for
magento
projects
and
magento
based
clients
for
fixing
their
bugs
and
creating
several
extensions.
C
C
It's
very
interesting
part
for
me
and
like
after
doing
continuous
contributions,
it
increases
my
interest
in
open
source
technologies
and
then
I
like
applied
to
become
a
maintainer
over
the
magento
github
and
since
then,
I'm
extensively
working
for
actively
working
for
magento
maintainer,
as
well
as
for
contribution
activities,
and
during
this
period
only
I
started
a
project
in
my
organization,
but
that
was
the
pwa
studio
projects
for
this.
That
was
based
on
magento
pwa
studio
project.
C
Only
but
for
this
I
learned
a
lot
of
new
things
related
to
front-end
technologies
like
react
and
also
the
apis
related
work
like
graphql
and
yeah.
During
this
period,
only
I
got
an
opportunity
from
magento
product
development
team
to
work
with
them
for
their
products,
like
related
to
upgrade
magento,
upgrade
related
projects
and
also
like
creating
extension
for
graphql
apis
in
magento
product
only
so
yeah.
C
B
B
Gassy
was
looking
for
someone
to
help
them
do
first
touch
on
github
and
I
met
jason
langstor
by
a
friend
and
you
know
started
working
with
them
a
couple
of
months
later.
You
know
we
both
liked
working
with
each
other.
I
decided
to
join
full
time
and
yeah
it's
been.
It's
been
a
pretty
solid
journey.
I've
been
helping,
maintain
gatsby
open
source
over
the
past
two
years.
A
It's
started,
I'm
sure
it's
fun
to
actually
work
with
a
company
which
is
like
open
source
and
you
are
doing
open
source
for
the
full
time.
So
that's
great
good
to
hear
yeah
so
before
we
move
ahead
like
so,
there
is
a
fun
fact
which
I
wanted
to
share
with
you.
I'm
actually
related
to
both
the
cities
which
she
can't
see
this
from.
So
I'm
from
mumbai.
A
C
So
people
recognize
me
for
me
for
my
work
and
also
I'm
able
to
get
to
know
about
the
things
which
is
related
to
the
work
like.
I
know
the
places
where
I
need
to
find
out
and
I
can
easily
get
the
answer
of
several
questions
from
the
clients,
and
apart
from
this
also,
I
got
feedback
for
my
work
from
highly
experienced
developers.
So
it's
really
in
improved
me
for
enhancing
my
skills
and
knowledge
so
yeah.
It's
definitely
like
helping
me
very
much
grow
in
my
career.
B
B
B
That's
been
something
that's
helped
me
level
up
tremendously
as
as
a
dev
and
besides
that
working
in
the
open
working
in
public
in
open
source
is
great,
because
it's
really
helped
me
sort
of
build
a
presence
and
also
build
you
know
stuff
to
be
able
to
show
off
on
github.
So
I
think
I
think
that's
been
pretty
solid
for
my
career.
A
Oh,
that's
that's
great!
I!
I
really
agree
with
that,
because
I
have
been
doing
open
source
from
last
one
and
half
year
now
more
than
two
years
and
I
can
see
the
kind
of
impact
it
has
on
my
career.
So
I
agree
with
both
of
you
now.
Next,
let's
move
on
to
the
next
question.
I'm
sure
there
are
a
lot
of
new
developers
and
we
have
just
seen
the
stats
and
I'm
really
excited.
A
C
Yeah
like
for
new
developers
like,
I
would
suggest
them
to
like
just
go
for
any
open
source
like
if
they
want
to
like,
have
a
graph
like
they
are
just
graduating
and
they
want
to
join
any
product
development
company
or
something
like
somewhere.
I
have
read
about
that
like.
If
you
have
some
background
in
open
source
working,
then
there
are
more
chances
to
get
in
in
a
big
product
development
companies.
I
have
read
it
somewhere,
so
basically,
for
that
is
also
very
helpful
to
increase
their
improve
their
skills
and
also
the
code.
C
You
write
on
open
source
github
like
repositories,
then
that
will
be
exposed
to
everyone.
So
you
more
focus
on
your
work,
so
it
definitely
it
is
going
to
improve
your
skills
so
for
like.
Basically,
they
should
just.
They
should
not
rush
about
doing
the
contribution.
They
should
just
go
slightly
and
they
just.
I
would
suggest
them
to
read
out
all
the
comments
on
the
previous
pull
requests
and
issues
like
just
involving
the
discussions
first
and
then
they
will
learn
the
patterns
over
working
on
that
and
also
like
just
not
go
for
the
code.
C
A
A
B
Yeah,
that's
a
great
question,
so
here's
what
I
here's,
what
I
think
the
best
way
to
start
contributing
is
to
contribute
to
a
project
that
you
use
frequently,
if
you're
using
any
project
in
either
your
day-to-day
work
or
on
a
site
project,
and
you
you
know
you
happen
to
hit
a
bug.
Maybe
that's
a
great
place
to
start.
You
know,
try
to
create
a
small
reproduction
open,
an
issue
see
if
you
can
fix
the
bug
yourself
open
a
pull
request,
or
even
if
it
isn't
a
bug.
B
Often
we
we,
you
know,
we
read
documentation.
Something
is
unclear,
you're,
not
sure
exactly
what
you
know.
Certain
api
looks
like
maybe
a
great
place
to
start
is
to
improve
that
documentation,
and
you
know
talking
about
gatsby
with
gatsby.
Our
contributions
have
been
fantastic,
I
mean
gatsby
is
what
it
is
in
a
huge
part
because
of
the
community
we've
had
over
2
000.
B
If
I
recall
correctly
contributors
over
time
and
if
you'd
like
to
get
started
with
gatsby
itself,
we
have
a
ton
of
open
issues,
I'm
always
happy
to
help
and
point
you
in
the
right
direction.
You
can
reach
out
to
me
on
twitter.
We
also
have
a
gatsby
discord,
which
is
a
great
place
for
people
to
you
know
just
get
their
feet
wet
and
get
started
you
can.
You
can
find
a
link
on
on
our
website
yeah,
you
know,
and
no
no
contribution
is
too
small.
B
A
I
agree
totally
agreed
because
I
started
my
contribution
in
angular
with
documentation
and
it
never
mattered
how
small
that
pr
is,
but
actually
open,
source
community
welcomes
or
appreciates
each
and
every
pr.
So
in
case
you
want
to
get
started
with
open
source
contribution,
just
go
ahead
and
get
in
touch
with
siddharth
and
they
will
get
they've
been
helpful.
A
Now,
let's
move
on
to
the
next
question,
which
is
more
on
the
terms
of
maintenance,
because
there
are
really
there
if
you
go
to
open
source,
there
are
a
lot
of
consumers
rather
than
the
people
who
are
actually
helping
the
open
source
community
and
maintainers
are
actually
one
of
the
important
part
of
that
entire
ecosystem.
I
would
say
so
what
are
your
suggestions
to
new
maintainers
of
an
open
source
projects
I
mean
when
they
represent
the
community,
so
see
that
we
want
to
go
first.
B
Yeah
sure
sure
I
think
firstly,
that's
a
great
question.
Thank
you
for
asking
that.
I
think
you
know,
my
only
advice
would
be
be
kind,
be
inclusive
and
have
empathy.
I
think
a
lot
of
users
when
they
stumble
upon
your
project
might
not
have
as
much
context
as
you
do,
and
you
know
something
might
seem
unclear.
B
Besides
that,
I
think
a
couple
of
things
on
github
right,
I
think
issue
templates
are
a
great
way
to
help
point
people
in
the
right
direction.
Having
you
know,
maybe
a
discord
channel
to
be
able
to
talk
to
folks
who
are
trying
to
contribute
is,
is
something
that
has
been
very
helpful
for
gatsby,
and
I
can
see
a
lot
of
maintainers
you
know
being
able
to
take
sort
of
being
able
to.
B
You
know
benefit
from
that,
and
finally,
I
think
labeling
is
is
a
is
a
is
a
really
helpful
thing
to
do.
Right.
Github
has
a
couple
of
labels
like
good,
first
issue
that
show
up,
even
if
you
know
you
search
for
a
project
or
or
if
you
search
for
good
first
issues.
So
if
you,
if
you
identify
issues
in
your
project
that
you
think
are
you
know
a
good
starting
point
for
new
contributors
as
a
maintainer
labeling
them,
you
know
editing
their
descriptions
for
those
to
be
really
clear.
B
C
Also,
I
would
suggest
that,
like
some
time,
I've
seen
that,
like
some
people,
some
maintainers
or
whatever
like
in
some
cases
like
we
are
adding
some
comments
for
the
contributor
and
we
are
not
available
there
to
answer
their
questions
over
that
is
coming
out
of
our
comments,
so
be
make
sure
that
you
are
available
on
time
to
have
like
answer.
The
contributors
questions
as
well
and
being
a
maintainer.
I
would
like
it's
not
it's
like.
C
A
Of
view,
so
the
next
question
is
really
important
to
everyone
who
is
involved
in
open
source
or
even
not
involved
in
open
source
right,
so
how
to
stay
away
from
burnout.
So
I'm
sure
it
happens
to
everyone
and
you
may
have
been
in
the
same
scenario.
So
if
you
can
share
your
stories
and
how
you
you
were
able
to
actually
stay
away
from
burnout,
how
you
disconnected
yourself
so
I'll
be
happy
to
actually
hear
your
experiences.
So
that's
it!
You
want
to
go
first.
B
Yeah
sure
so
that's
a
great
question
I
mean
burnout
is,
is
inevitable,
I
think,
to
a
certain
extent,
and
it
happens
to
everybody.
It's
happened
to
me.
I'm
sure
it's
happened
to
you
as
well.
I
think,
what's
really
important
is
is
work-life
balance
right.
I
think
we
take
for
granted
that,
especially
with
the
pandemic,
it's
easy
to
get
lost
in
your
work
and
spend
too
much
time
working
and
not
you
know,
taking
time
out
to
do
things
that
you
really
enjoy.
B
Even
if
you
really
enjoy
coding-
and
you
know
you
want
to
do
that
outside
of
work-
I
still
recommend
trying
to
take
time
away
from
you
know,
screens
go
out,
you
know,
get
some
fresh
air
and,
and
you
know,
find
hobbies
that
don't
have
to
do
with
a
computer.
I
think
that
sort
of
balance
really
helps.
One
of
you
know.
The
things
I
do
is
is
I
like
diving,
so
I
I
you
know.
C
B
B
A
C
C
That
is
also
helping
us
like
helping
everyone
a
lot
to
avoid
this
stress,
and
apart
from
this
like,
if,
if
you
are
working
on
certain
tasks-
and
you
have
to
achieve
some
milestone
in
your
work,
so
if
it
is
required
to
do
extra
efforts
and
take
extra
stress
and
be
focused
on
that.
So
in
that
case
like
I
would
suggest
to
find
out
the
motivation
out
of
your
work
time
to
get
note
down
all
the
benefits
and
learnings
you
are
getting
through
that
work.
C
So,
in
that
case
like
if
you
are
working
hard
and
working
too
much
and
with
very
stress
so
in
that
in
that
situation
also,
you
find
the
motivation
to
work,
and
I
really
feel
that
if
you
are
really
motivated
and
passionate
about
your
work,
there
are
less
chances
that
you
will
get
stressed
out
out
of
your
work.
So
that's
the
thing.
That's
the
thing
to
avoid
your
stress
at
your
professional
life.
C
The
motivation
is
to
just
for
me
the
motivation
is
to
gather
the
knowledge
and
share
your
knowledge,
like
it's
a
great
feeling,
if
you
are
able
to
help
others
community
and
be
involved
in
that,
and
you
can
be
recognized
for
your
work.
So
the
main
motivation
for
me
is
to
like
you
can
have
the
expert
to
make
opinion
on
your
working
and
also
you
can
improve
your
skills.
You
can
be
involved
in
several
discussion
and
there
your
your,
like
suggestion,
might
be
matter
almost.
C
Maybe
there
are
some
chances,
like
your
suggestion,
will
be
counted
as
one
of
the
best
suggestion
and
that
can
be
implemented
in
a
way
and
if,
even
if
you
are
working
in
a
big
organization,
they
are
also
including
your
thoughts
in
their
product.
So
it's
a
great
feeling
of
achievement
for
me
like
if
you
are
being
recognized
for
your
work,
so
knowledge
sharing
is
the
most
motivation
for
me
for
working
on
open
source
like
I
can
be
involved
in
the
discussions
and
also
I
can
learn
a
lot
from
their
experiences.
B
My
motivation
is
that
I
get
paid
for
it
I'm
kidding,
but
I
think
I
think
I'm
half
kidding
the
other
thing
that
I
mean
the
thing
I
like
the
most
about
open
source
on
serious
note
is
that
there's
the
sort
of
scale
in
open
source
projects
that's
hard
to
find
in
day-to-day
product
development.
I
mean,
unless
you're
working
on
a
really
large
project
or
a
really
large
product,
like
maybe
twitter
or
facebook.
It's
likely
that
your
open
source
project
will
probably
see
more
users
than
you
know.
B
The
product
you're
using
it
for
maybe
and
that
kind
of
scale
brings
a
really
different
class
of
problems
and
a
really
different
class
of
complexity.
I've
really
been
enjoying
that
at
gatsby
it's
hard,
but
it's
also
it's
hard
to
solve.
You
know
difficult
problems.
I've
I've
noticed
that
that's
driven
me.
Another
thing
that's
driven
me
has
just
been
you
know.
B
Open
sources
is
really
it's
really
satisfying
in
the
fact
that
you
know
when
you
see
other
people
being
able
to
create
real
value
from
from
your
work,
I
think
it's
it's
a
huge
multiplier
in
terms
of
how
much
of
an
impact
you
can
have
right
versus
you
know,
building
one
product
or
building
something
that's
used
in.
You
know
many
products.
That's
that's
really.
You
know
been
driving
me
at
gatsby,
seeing
all
the
fantastic
projects
people
create
with
it.
So
so
yeah,
that's!
What's
that's?
What's
driven
me
so
far,.
B
C
C
Main
repository
of
magento
is
like
github.com,
slash,
magento
and
magento2,
in
that
you
can
also
find
multiple
projects
in
the
same
repositories
like
stuff
related
to
php8
migration
and
also
some
graphql
graphql
pull
request,
and
apart
from
this
magento,
also
having
some
kind
of
open
source
repositories
for
pwa
studios,
which
is
based
on
the
react
and
node,
and
also
there.
There
is
a
dev
dock
repository
for
magento
pw
studio,
magento,
pwa
studio,
also
the
magento
main
repository.
C
So
there
you
can
find
all
the
information
related
to
magento
stuffs
like
how
you
can
start
working.
How
you
can
create
your
issues,
you
can
create
your
pull
request
and
how
you
can
install
even
the
magento,
all
the
features
related
to
it
so
yeah,
the
magento
github.com,
is
the
main
repository
where
you
can
find
all
this
stuff.
That's.
A
Great,
so
thanks
a
lot
siddharth
and
shikhas
for
joining
us,
and
it
was
I'm
sure
this
is
this.
Conversation
is
going
to
help
a
lot
of
developers
out
there
and
in
case
you
have
any
questions,
feel
free
to
reach
out
to
anyone
students
if
shikha
is
available
on
twitter
and
you
you
can
just
find
that
with
a
handle
in
the
github
satellite
page
and
feel
free
to
connect
with
them,
and
you
can
also
discuss
about
it.
We'll
get
up
on
bit
of
discussions
so
yeah,
that's
it
for
the
day
and
see
you
all.