Some thoughts on saying "I don't know" to help normalise that for new maintainers.

https://noumenal.es/notes/open-source/I-dont-know-either/

#DjangoMaintainers

@CodenameTim wins First Not Me thread on the discussion group. 🏅

https://github.com/carltongibson/notes/discussions/31 #DjangoMaintainers

New post on _The Maintainer’s Lifecycle_ for the discussion group.

Go check it out:

https://noumenal.es/notes/open-source/maintainers-lifecycle/ #DjangoMaintainers

An experiment in mentoring maintainers. 👨‍🔬

> There’s a gap between making your first open source contributions, and then going on to pick up the role of a package maintainer.

If you’re e.g. a PyLady or a Django Girl (or … ) in the Django community and you want to get into package maintenance, do reach out.

https://noumenal.es/posts/mentoring-maintainers/6WB/

#PyLadies #DjangoGirls #DjangoMaintainers

(Updated the post with the link to the discussion group.)