Open Source Maintenance, 2024-07-14

Due to some recent travel (both for fun and for work), I've yet again fallen behind on my GitHub notifications across the various open-source projects I maintain. In this video, like the others like it in the past, we made our way through as many of those as we could over the course of a few hours! And as with the past ones of these, my hope is that by showing the maintainer side of open-source, you get a better sense for how open-source operates, what it's like to be on the receiving end of issues/PRs, and just generally what maintainer work entails. And hopefully you also learn some stuff along the way!

0:00:00 Introduction
0:04:42 Fantoccini 0.20.0 and 0.21.0 with hyper 1.0
0:43:21 PR that fixes typos (with CI)
0:46:52 crates-index-transit dependencies
0:57:46 Fantoccini CI: aws-lc
1:18:25 Various
1:20:50 Fantoccini CI: upgrade drivers and browsers
1:37:48 Various
1:45:05 Check in on fantoccini CI
1:50:33 hdrhistogram sum feature
1:58:19 Fantoccini CI: The root cause
2:35:13 Faktory: flaky test
2:43:15 Fantoccini CI: Chrome on Windows is still sad
2:48:59 Faktory: signals and blocking handlers
3:40:56 Fantoccini CI: A Chrome bug appears
3:45:43 Tea break
3:53:55 Various
4:15:33 Fantoccini CI: Try serial Chrome tests
4:21:52 Inferno: Bump dependencies
5:03:21 Fantoccini CI: Release 0.21.0
5:06:29 Inferno: Catching up with upstream
6:05:37 Inferno: Cut 0.11.20
6:27:47 wewerewondering: bump dependencies
6:31:18 Outro

[smallclover]

I love these Open Source Maintenance VODs since it's so cool to see behind the scenes of a repository/package maintainer like this and how much work goes into it.

[wearefiresidesessions]

Really inspiring! Thanks for maintaining all the open-source projects.

[rodelias]

I watched this from start to finish.. and man.. this open source stuff requires a lot of time and work!
Great stream Jon and thanks for everything you do!

[brandonkauffman]

Thanks for the day in the life show. I work as devops/sre and I enjoy using Rust and watching your stream 1. to learn about awesome rust things and 2. to feel like I'm working in the office again.

[waynelau]

I really wish my ADHD doesn't restrict me from watching this for 6hours, thank you for the quality content even though i struggle to watch 😂

[cocacodes]

This whole VOD felt so frustrating to watch, 10/10

[FerPerez-mcwr]

The content is a cut above the rest. Keep setting the bar high!

[Alp_Mimaroglu]

Please do more crust of rust. They are incredibly informative

[dzuchun]

git bisect around 5h40m really felt more like git blame 😅

[ferdynandkiepski]

I don't think you actually needed to install nasm. After setting that environment variable it would build without it. Would it be slower? Yes, probably by a lot as well. Does it matter for CI? I don't think so. Would also require an unoptimized build of it.

[jonnyso]

Funny, I failed an test on a job interview a year ago and I've been all this time wondering how I could actually do what they asked the way they asked, I had no idea something like Fantoccini was a thing.

[danielegger]

I'd always do a cargo publish before pushing to git. Otherwise, if cargo publish fails in one of it's misterious ways, you'd have to change the history of the repo to if a change is required to make publish work.

[YuruCampSupermacy]

Wait 6hrs of coding non stop? Really? Is that even humanely possible?