This week I published a podcast episode that features a software engineer to prolific non-code contributor by the name of Snow Petterson. Snow is a senior maintainer for Envoy, a very popular proxy server in the cloud-native space used by Lyft, Google, Netflix, and many other household name companies.
Snow went from writing new code to reviewing others, answering emails, filing and/or responding to issues, merging PRs on GitHub. Basically all of the necessary tasks that help sustain a project for the long haul.
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A (Literal) GitHub Star for Daniel Stenberg
The maintainer of curl is definitely a star. What I found most interesting about this article was more about the non-code effort the GitHub DevRel team made to make this maintainer feel appreciated by the entire open source community. Not only did he get a beautiful plaque, but he also got tons of exclusive merch and a personalized letter. 👏
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Podcasts
Maintaining Envoy Proxy with Snow Petterson
Over the years that Snow has been at Envoy, he tells us how much of his time he spends writing new code versus reviewing others versus answering emails and files or responding to issues on GitHub.
That's all folks
No video this week 😭 but that means you have more time to listen to that podcast episode! ⬆️
Please let me know what you think. ✌️