Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout

Request For Commits by Changelog Media

Nov 1, 201758:44Technology

Christopher Hiller joined Nadia and Mikeal to discuss the ups and downs of maintaining Mocha - a JavaScript test framework that runs on Node.js and in the browser. Discussions included maintaining a popular project, gett...

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