Chris Grams articles - 36 total
The open source maintainer community is getting grayer
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers...
Younger open source maintainers are significantly more likely to use AI-based coding tools
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers...
AI-based coding tools are thriving, and maintainers have some valid concerns about the impact on their work
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers...
In the wake of the xz utils hack, two-thirds of maintainers are less trusting of contributors
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers...
Almost half of maintainers feel underappreciated and like the work is thankless
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers...
Paid maintainers do more maintenance and documentation work than unpaid maintainers
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers...
Paid maintainers are significantly more likely to implement critical security practices than unpaid maintainers
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers...
Maintainers are much more likely to align with the OpenSSF Scorecard when they are paid for their work
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers...
Maintainers are spending 3 more time on security than they did a few years ago
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers...
Who’s paying the maintainers? Donation programs, employers, and Tidelift
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers...
The more maintainers are paid, the more improvements they make to their projects
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers...
60% of maintainers are (still) not paid for their work
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers...
Take the 2024 open source maintainer survey!
It is time for the third installment Tidelift state of the open source maintainer survey! Do you...
Upstream preview: Vincent Danen of Red Hat calls for a patch management revolution
Upstream is June 5, and wow, our schedule is shaping up brilliantly. Over the next few weeks we’ll...
The experience of being a maintainer—in their words
In late 2022, Tidelift fielded its second survey of open source maintainers. Hundreds of maintainers...
Maintainers need help building a sustainable community around their projects
In late 2022, Tidelift fielded its second survey of open source maintainers. Hundreds of maintainers...
Maintainers to industry: We need help (and here’s what we need)
In late 2022, Tidelift fielded its second survey of open source maintainers. Hundreds of maintainers...
Maintainer burnout is real. Almost 60% of maintainers have quit or considered quitting maintaining one of their projects
In late 2022, Tidelift fielded its second survey of open source maintainers. Hundreds of maintainers...
Open source maintenance can be stressful, lonely, and financially unrewarding
In late 2022, Tidelift fielded its second survey of open source maintainers. Hundreds of maintainers...
Maintainers want to do creative work that matters and makes an impact
In late 2022, Tidelift fielded its second survey of open source maintainers. Hundreds of maintainers...
In a shocker, paid maintainers do more security and maintenance work than unpaid maintainers
In late 2022, Tidelift fielded its second survey of open source maintainers. Hundreds of maintainers...
Maintainers to industry: We don’t have the time nor money to do more.
In late 2022, Tidelift fielded its second survey of open source maintainers. Hundreds of maintainers...
Maintainers are being asked to do more security work. Over 50% didn’t get the memo.
In late 2022, Tidelift fielded its second survey of open source maintainers. Hundreds of maintainers...
The more maintainers get paid, the more they work on open source
In late 2022, Tidelift fielded its second survey of open source maintainers. Hundreds of maintainers...
Despite increasing demands, most maintainers still don’t get paid for their work
In late 2022, Tidelift fielded its second survey of open source maintainers. Hundreds of maintainers...
Security is open source developers’ most urgent challenge, while complying with government requirements is a rising concern
Security is the most common challenge application development teams face when building with open source (57%), with making good decisions about which components to use (53%) and when to upgrade them (54%) coming in right behind.
Help us learn how organizations manage the use of open source components, and we'll send you a shirt!
For the fourth year in a row, Tidelift is launching a survey to improve our understanding of how organizations use open source software to build enterprise applications.
Finding #3: Maintainers enjoy making a positive impact and those who make money enjoy it
What motivates maintainers today? That’s where our survey went next: we wanted to know what maintainers enjoy about their work and why they keep doing it.
Formal processes around open source management are more common, but it is still basically a free for all
Only 10% of respondents in 2018 had a formal process, and the percentage nearly doubled to 17% in this year’s survey.
The top programming languages organizations rely on are JavaScript, Python, and Java
The top three languages in the Tidelift 2020 managed open source survey were JavaScript (78%), Python (52%), and Java (41%).