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This isn’t an “actions speak louder than words” sort of post, although I suppose they’re related thoughts.

I just published the first version of the Maintainer’s Guide to Hackfests.

In open source projects, we tend to grant privileges far more often than we remove them.

If you’ve ever tried to make something work better by adding or changing a process, you may have noticed that the something got worse.

We all like to think that we’re very rational and make decisions logically.

If you want to start a fight, bring up the topic of closing unresolved issues.

We talk a lot in open source about reputation.

One topic that often takes up more brain space than it needs is the concept of a long-term support (LTS) release.

I’m part of a project that’s been hibernating longer than many projects have existed.

I am a big proponent of the “don’t make rules you can’t (or won’t) enforce” maxim.

Earlier this week, curl project lead Daniel Stenberg announced the “curl summer of bliss“.