Maintaining a popular project and sponsored time
01/19/18 • 62 min
Henry Zhu joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss his work on Babel, how he became and accidental maintainer, why he thinks maintainers aren’t special, paid open source work, the Babel brand, and building community.
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Henry Zhu joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss his work on Babel, how he became and accidental maintainer, why he thinks maintainers aren’t special, paid open source work, the Babel brand, and building community.
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- GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.
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Henry, you said that you've become an accidental maintainer of Babel... How did you start contributing to Babel and then eventually become a maintainer?
Henry Zhu:So I started contributing to Babel through another project that I was maintaining. It was called [JSCS](http://jscs.info/), it's a JavaScript linter. Through that project, I learned about what are called AST's (Abstract Syntax Trees) and I realiz
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