[[!toc ]] Q&A: live Duration: 10:07 If you have questions and the speaker has not indicated public contact information on this page, please feel free to e-mail us at and we'll forward your question to the speaker. # Talk [[!template id="vid" vidid="mainVideo" src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--main.webm" poster="https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--main.png" captions="""""" size="9.5M" duration="10:07" other_resources="""[Download .org](https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry.org) [Download --main.vtt](https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--main.vtt) [Download --main--chapters.vtt](https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--main--chapters.vtt) [View on Toobnix](https://toobnix.org/w/naNvWzM2jjj5ownu9zmbAf) """]] [[!template id="chapters" vidid="mainVideo" data=""" 00:00 Introduction 00:47 What is a free software maintainer? 02:19 What do I do as the Org maintainer? 03:24 Do you see a pattern here? 04:18 What a free software maintainer is or should be 05:03 Summary 05:26 ACDC: Asynchronous Collective Distributed Care 06:28 How can you help Emacs maintainers? 06:37 Become a maintainer for your own project, however small 06:56 Volunteer as a contributor steward for another project 07:10 Learn how to teach 07:25 Test and enhance the project's contribution process 07:35 Take care of the project's calls for help 07:52 Encourage users from outside the project to contribute to the core forum 08:08 Let the core forum know about what happens in this outside world 08:16 Propose your help for non-code tasks 08:26 If you expect someone else to fix your bug, try fixing someone else's bug first 08:42 Don't expect the maintainer to be a hotline 08:49 Complete this list 08:57 Yes, this is hard 09:35 Thanks """]] # Q&A [[!template id="vid" vidid="qanda" src="https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--answers.webm" poster="https://media.emacsconf.org/2021/emacsconf-2021-maintainers--how-to-help-emacs-maintainers---bastien-guerry--answers.png" captions="""""" size="70M" duration="58:55" other_resources=""""""]] # Description