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Paid maintainers are significantly more likely to implement critical security practices than unpaid maintainers

In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...
Chris Grams
by Chris Grams
on October 3, 2024

Maintainers are much more likely to align with the OpenSSF Scorecard when they are paid for their work

By Chris Grams on October 1, 2024
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...

Maintainers are spending 3× more time on security than they did a few years ago

By Chris Grams on September 26, 2024
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...

Who’s paying the maintainers? Donation programs, employers, and Tidelift

By Chris Grams on September 24, 2024
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...

The more maintainers are paid, the more improvements they make to their projects

By Chris Grams on September 19, 2024
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...

60% of maintainers are (still) not paid for their work

By Chris Grams on September 17, 2024
In mid-2024, Tidelift fielded its third survey of open source maintainers. More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, ...

The Red Hat IPO experiment to pay maintainers: 25 years later

By Chris Grams on August 12, 2024
Twenty five years ago this week, on August 11, 1999, Red Hat went public in a stock offering that at the time was one of the largest ever, ending its ...

Take the 2024 open source maintainer survey!

By Chris Grams on July 8, 2024
It is time for the third installment Tidelift state of the open source maintainer survey!

Only maintainers can prevent software fires

By Bill Nottingham on May 23, 2024
Most software engineers who maintain an open-source-using application for their organization have a story of an epic software “fire” they’ll never ...

Recap: Life as an open source maintainer after xz

By Amy Hays on May 15, 2024
It’s been six weeks since a developer uncovered a hack of epic scope in the popular Linux compression library called xz utils (previously known as ...

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