I love OpenSource, and the maintainers having full time jobs; how do they get around to managing the issues, pull requests, feature requests, etc... Does the pressure that there are a lot of people dependent on their work, ever get to them? What do you think?
Better, do any of you have an experience in being a maintainer of such projects, and have something to say about it?
Marco Alka
Software Engineer, Technical Consultant & Mentor
I am no maintainer and I do not deal with a lot of issues at a time, but my guess is they systematically work through the issues. They just start with the most important ones and work on them one-by-one. That's also how pilots work through critical situations with lots of simultaneous input factors and stress ;)
Some weeks ago I saw a really nice link about zero-bug development here on Hashnode. I think it is one way to deal with stuff.