Interesting, the situation for kernel maintainers is actually harder than I thought. You'd expect more of them could do the maintainer job on work time...

I'm not necessarily convinced this is as much a silver bullet as it is presented here. Still there are benefits to such a structured approach for reviews in community projects.

Facebook getting interested in the fediverse indeed looks like XMPP or OOXML all over again. Beware of those old tactics, they are very efficient against communities.

Happy birthday the KDE Free Qt Foundation! It's really nice to see it survived the test of time. It is for sure an essential tool of the KDE ecosystem. I wish there would be more such foundations around.

Interesting and provoking thought... Indeed it's hard to build communities while also aiming for rapid and constant growth. There's no chance of having communities properly stabilize which leads to the tribalism and bad behavior we see on social media.

Interesting post, highlights why it's better when languages are designed in a more community fashion (make sure to read until the conclusion). At least in term of popularity it seems to help.

Interesting set of challenges indeed. I think Rust is a bit at a crossroad now. The next few years will be crucial, either they will lead to further adoption or it will stagnate and slowly disappear.

To me that sounds an awful like the "lazy consensus" often applied in communities. Still this is indeed a good approach.

Interesting list of criteria about why you might not use some piece of tech. Also delves into why this is often not public knowledge.

Nice description of the community management in the Rust community.

Looks like a very nice canvas for building and charting communities.