Learnings of Open-source maintainer - Patience

Project maintainer's have to wear multiple hats. Successful Open-Source projects are managed by a healthy community. A healthy community must have steady infusion of new members. Onboarding new member requires mentoring. Maintainers are experienced in project and can be good mentors. Willingness to help newcomers and work through the challenging they face could result in them sticking with the project and become contributors and influence the project and who knows maybe future maintainers.

Mentoring requires patience.

Difficult problems could require more iterations to get the desired code quality and design This means to keep working with contributors by giving them feedback and nudging them in right direction to achieve the goal. This could be frustrating for contributors and maintainers at the same time.

Reviewing/guiding requires patience

It is a good virtue to work on.