How to Become a Better Open Source Maintainer

• guestbook

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  The place where future contributors are born

  

In one of my experiences, my team and I repeatedly gave feedback to resolve merge conflicts on the guestbook repository at OpenSauced. Most of the time, contributors needed to make several attempts until we could merge their PR. Resolving merge conflicts is a daunting task, especially for beginners. Going back and forth to resolve the conflicts would likely discourage them from contributing to any open source project in the future.

• virtualcoffee.io

  53 208 8.9 TypeScript

  Public site for Virtual Coffee

  

Since last September, I have had the opportunity to be an open source project maintainer. I help maintain some project repositories at Virtual Coffee, OpenSauced, and SheSharp communities. And now, I can see the view from a different perspective.

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• markdown-live-preview

  9 192 7.0 JavaScript

  markdown editor with live preview

You can use the "Markdown Live Preview" tool to look at the page format of any Markdown files.

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