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Finding #7: Maintainers need help improving documentation and the user and contributor experience

In early 2021, Tidelift fielded its first-ever comprehensive survey of open source maintainers. Nearly 400 maintainers responded with thoughts about ...
Chris Grams
by Chris Grams
on July 27, 2021

Chris Grams

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Finding #6: Maintainers only spend 1/4 of their time writing code, and here’s where the rest of their time goes

By Chris Grams on July 20, 2021
In early 2021, Tidelift fielded its first-ever comprehensive survey of open source maintainers. Nearly 400 maintainers responded with thoughts about ...

Finding #5: More than half of maintainers have quit or considered quitting, and here’s why.

By Chris Grams on July 13, 2021
In early 2021, Tidelift fielded its first-ever comprehensive survey of open source maintainers. Nearly 400 maintainers responded with thoughts about ...

Finding #4: Open source maintenance work is often stressful, thankless, and financially unrewarding

By Chris Grams on July 1, 2021
In early 2021, Tidelift fielded its first-ever comprehensive survey of open source maintainers. Nearly 400 maintainers responded with thoughts about ...

Finding #3: Maintainers enjoy making a positive impact and those who make money enjoy it

By Chris Grams on June 24, 2021
In early 2021, Tidelift fielded its first-ever comprehensive survey of open source maintainers. Nearly 400 maintainers responded with thoughts about ...

Finding #2: Most maintainers aren’t paid well today, but Tidelift is having an impact

By Chris Grams on June 10, 2021
In early 2021, Tidelift fielded its first-ever comprehensive survey of open source maintainers. Nearly 400 maintainers responded with thoughts about ...

About the 2021 Tidelift maintainer survey

By Chris Grams on June 3, 2021
This is the fourth year in a row Tidelift conducted a survey about open source but the first time it focused exclusively on the maintainers who ...

Finding #1: About half of maintainers get paid nothing for their work

By Chris Grams on June 3, 2021
In early 2021, Tidelift fielded its first-ever comprehensive survey of open source maintainers. Nearly 400 maintainers responded with thoughts about ...

Finding #9: almost half of organizations have open source contribution policies. We learned what they cover.

By Chris Grams on December 1, 2020
Tidelift's annual managed open source survey explores how technologists use open source to build applications at work. Over 600 people shared how ...

Finding #8: the top ways organizations contribute to open source—and where they see ROI

By Chris Grams on November 24, 2020
Tidelift's annual managed open source survey explores how technologists use open source to build applications at work. Over 600 people shared how ...