Learnings of Open-source maintainer - Vision

Among all conflicting asks on project maintainers, they have to keep an eye beyond the horizon. Software projects are like flowing river they keep moving forward with the help of contributions. The path the project charters along is guided by decisions that maintainers along with the community make. Think of Linux kernel project accepting rust programming language as an option, such decisions are made to keep future in mind, they may create a bit of upheaval in present and many community members may see it as distraction. Sometimes unpopular decisions must be taken by maintainers to shape the future and hope it turns out as expected.

Guiding the project's evolution while respecting its core purpose and not ignoring what came before them is a core virtue of a maintainer.