--- title: pi0/tired-maintainer: 🗒️ Notes from a tired maintainer description: Maintaining multiple open-source projects is not easy. Maintainers have limited capacity and prioritize based on common sense and real merits. PRs may be... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pi0-tired-maintainer-notes-from-a-tired-maintainer-neknbhmbl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: pi0/tired-maintainer: 🗒️ Notes from a tired maintainer | daily.dev og:description: Maintaining multiple open-source projects is not easy. Maintainers have limited capacity and prioritize based on common sense and real merits. PRs may be... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pi0-tired-maintainer-notes-from-a-tired-maintainer-neknbhmbl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NEKnBHmbl.png og:image:alt: pi0/tired-maintainer: 🗒️ Notes from a tired maintainer og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # pi0/tired-maintainer: 🗒️ Notes from a tired maintainer **[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 4 min read · 25 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Maintaining multiple open-source projects is not easy. Maintainers have limited capacity and prioritize based on common sense and real merits. PRs may be pending for various reasons, such as code quality or compatibility with project goals. Contributors should be patient, give context to maintainers, and align with them to minimize collaboration cost. Mutual awareness of open source is crucial for improvement. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/pi0-tired-maintainer-notes-from-a-tired-maintainer-neknbhmbl) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"pi0/tired-maintainer: 🗒️ Notes from a tired maintainer","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/pi0-tired-maintainer-notes-from-a-tired-maintainer-neknbhmbl","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/pi0-tired-maintainer-notes-from-a-tired-maintainer-neknbhmbl"},"datePublished":"2024-03-03T19:01:00.787Z","dateModified":"2024-05-09T09:21:59.549Z","description":"Maintaining multiple open-source projects is not easy. Maintainers have limited capacity and prioritize based on common sense and real merits. PRs may be...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6a266cff308f3d8cc85bd24617fd6f4f?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6a266cff308f3d8cc85bd24617fd6f4f?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Community Picks","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Community Picks","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1655817725/logos/community","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/community"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/pi0-tired-maintainer-notes-from-a-tired-maintainer-neknbhmbl","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":25},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"open-source,github","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Community Picks","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/community"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"pi0/tired-maintainer: 🗒️ Notes from a tired maintainer"}]} ```