---
title: "Once a Maintainer: Armin Ronacher"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/once-a-maintainer-armin-ronacher-hfqgguhh5
source_url: https://onceamaintainer.substack.com/p/once-a-maintainer-armin-ronacher
type: article
source: "RUBYLAND"
published: 2024-04-18T19:26:25.462Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:03:00.647Z
tags: ["python", "open-source", "flask"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Once a Maintainer: Armin Ronacher

**[RUBYLAND](https://daily.dev/sources/rubyla)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Armin Ronacher, creator of Flask and founder of the Pocoo team, discusses his journey into open source, the popularity of Flask, and the challenges of package indices in open source projects.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://onceamaintainer.substack.com/p/once-a-maintainer-armin-ronacher>

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