#102 Continuity
On and on and on and on.
Continuity is quite important in open-source projects, where you may have contributors dipping in and out regularly. They often help out voluntarily, and even full-time contributors are often part of multiple projects. Plus, everyone has lots of other things going on in their lives. That means attention is split, and getting into a specific project and task can be tedious. So I find it an important role for maintainers to establish a sense of continuity. It’s pretty much project management work, keeping the roadmap organized, helping keep work moving with reviews, creating issues for to-dos, keeping the project board organized, connecting people as needed, etc. When this is done well, contributors can much more easily dip in and out, pick up something they want to work on, bring it to the finish line, and feel good about it. It’s mostly quiet work, and the satisfaction in doing that is that others are more productive and the team is gelling, and it feels like the project is nicely moving along. It’s the type of work that when done well, no-one notices - things are just going smoothly.
Personally, I’m not able to keep as much continuity in all the projects I’m involved in. There are just too many projects, and not enough people who want to do this type of PM work. Maybe just a matter of encouraging more people to chip in…
Anyhow, here are some stickers (Figma). I’m preparing them for the Baltic Honeybadger conference. I won’t attend, but others in the community are. Shout-out to Claude for coming up with the taglines.
Saving Satoshi works full-speed towards the finish line (still 1-2 months to go). Stacie went on a podcast and talked about the project and its ambitions. Take a peek.
I am currently trying to understand the lesson content of chapter 10, which is about the game theory in lightning, and it is a total mind bender. Luckily my collaborators are geniuses and are helping me get there so we can have a nice UX for the learning experience. I also need to get started on a project case study for the guide as it’s quite a cool initiative with a solid design process.
For the Open Design Guide, I’m doing content iterations here and there. Once it’s in decent shape and there is a bit more visibility, I think it would be great start a weekly reading club around it.
People are coming back from vacation now, so work in the last 2 weeks changed again more towards reviewing and organizing. In core, we finalized the updated activity and receive pages, and in the guide there’s work happening on the Inheritance wallet reference design (1, 2, 3), ecash, and silent payments. The Summer of Bitcoin projects are also coming to an end and the students need some help wrapping things up.
I’m about to go on vaca and will be off for a couple of weeks. And I am totally ready for it, my brain needs a break.
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