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leah wasser

Tips to prevent maintainer burnout from the beautiful soup maintainer. A single maintainer managing a package will millions of users

*ask users to contribute issues before a pr
* practice defensive programming. Use warnings to point to common user mistakes

Slide showing a list of bullet points associated with maintainer burnout and the beautiful soup maintainer standing at a podium . My boundaries after twenty years I probably won’t respond to your support request - (Unless it looks like you hit a bug.) I practice defensive coding (especially using `warnings.warn`) - Provides automatic support for common mistakes Courtesy is even more important than usual I’m *interested* in the quality of my dependencies (lxml et al) - I’ll file bugs but won’t try to fix them I’m *committed* to the quality of the beautifulsoup4 package - If I walk away or die, the current release should work for a long time. I practice software hygiene (unit tests, type hints) - Gives me confidence that I can come back after a break Bug reports > pull requests
#pyconus#python#opensource
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leah wasser

@eamon thank you for sharing this!! i hadn't seen it before! his talk was really great.

Eamon

@leahawasser gosh I bet. Jealous I can't be there!

May 19, 2024, 03:00 AM·Quiet public·Tusky
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