Name: Maintaining the Maintainers - Phil Estes, AWS
Start: 2025-03-31T13:10:00+0100
End: 2025-03-31T13:45:00+0100

In-person
31 March 2025
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Monday March 31, 2025 13:10 - 13:45 BST

Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

The goal of many open source projects is to reach a stable and mature state where users and maintainers continue to sustain project health over a period of years, or maybe decades! But if your project reaches this lofty goal, you will definitely live through the "working lifetime" of many of your maintainers and contributors. Some will retire, some will move to new roles with little time to contribute. Others may just lose interest and slowly fade from the project.

So how do we "maintain the maintainers" over the lifetime of our projects? In this talk we'll draw from lessons learned in containerd, a graduated CNCF project with a large set of contributors as well as other related projects. This will include practical guidance on governance as well as introducing emeritus status. We'll share general day to day guidance for maintainer interactions and talk about ideas for keeping contributors engaged and the importance of a pipeline of new contributors leading to new maintainers.

Speakers

Phil Estes

Principal Engineer, AWS

Phil is a Principal Engineer for Amazon Web Services (AWS), focused on core container technologies that power AWS container offerings like Fargate, EKS, and ECS. Phil is an active contributor and maintainer for the CNCF containerd runtime project, and participates in the Open Container... Read More →

Monday March 31, 2025 13:10 - 13:45 BST
Level 3 | ICC Capital Suite 10-12

Growing Contributors

Maintainer Summit Europe 2025

Phil Estes

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