larlet-fr-david/david/stream/2018/10/08/index.md

title: Maintenance and responsibility lang: en

To distill a maintainer’s responsibilities into core facets, I have borrowed from Asimov’s Three Laws. Perhaps it feels like a dramatic summary of the rather mundane task of pushing to a public git remote. But if you feel that way, I’ve likely already lost you. That’s fine. These laws have my name on them, not yours.

1. A maintainer may not harm a user or, through inaction, allow users to come to harm
2. A maintainer must shepherd their project and empower the community to do the same
3. A maintainer must protect their own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws

*I, Maintainer* (cache)

Something to remember before pushing the first lines of open-source code out there.

Been there, felt that.