---
title: "pi0/tired-maintainer: 🗒️ Notes from a tired maintainer"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/pi0-tired-maintainer-notes-from-a-tired-maintainer-neknbhmbl
source_url: https://github.com/pi0/tired-maintainer
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2024-03-03T19:01:00.787Z
updated: 2024-05-09T09:21:59.549Z
tags: ["open-source", "github"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 25
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# 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.

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