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Marcus Noble
@averagemarcus.bsky.social

This reminds me (a little) about the issue last year with Linkerd being maintained by a single vendor and the drama that came around that. Was there any learning outcome / changes from that to help avoid vendors getting a stronghold on a project like that?

Chris Aniszczyk
@cra.dev

linkerd still followed the IP rules of the foundation and Apache 2.0 open source license... I'm happy their changes worked out better for the business and project!

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Chris Aniszczyk
@cra.dev

...the challenge is projects tend to be a "do-cracy" as in people who show up and do the work get influence... the only thing we've found that really helps with improving diversity over time is multiple products/vendors based on upstream and mentorships www.cncf.io/blog/2024/11...

cncf.ioUnlock growth and talent: why maintainers should mentor with CNCFBy Nate Waddington, Head of Mentorship and Documentation, CNCF Open source projects rely on strong communities. Mentorship programs like LFX Mentorship and Google Summer of Code offer maintainers a…
Lukasz Gornicki
@gornicki.bsky.social

I confirm mentorship is a great way to have more diverse projects and grow maintainers list. If we had not invested so much in it in the past years, after the Postman layoffs, AsyncAPI would fall. We also started experimenting with special mentorship, which is called "Maintainership".