Wicked Good Development: Dev Nexus Reflections and Conversations Part 2

Wicked Good Development is dedicated to the future of open source. This space is to learn about the latest in the developer community and talk shop with open source software innovators and experts in the industry.

Brad Wood, Software Architect at Ortus Solutions says “everybody should be secure” when it comes to open source security. Hear Brad’s distinctive perspective after occupying the roles of both an open source maintainer and contributor. From the advantages of using ColdFusion to the effects of trust in development like abandonware and namespace confusion attacks, Brad covers it all with Wicked Good Development at DevNexus 2022.

If you’d like to start at the beginning, jump back to part one of this series.

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Show notes

Hosts

• Kadi Grigg
• Omar Torres

Panelists

• Rohan Bhaumik, Product Manager

• Theresa Mammarella, Developer Advocate

• Steve Poole, Developer Advocate

• Rishav Mishra, Product Manager

• A.J. Brown, Principal Engineer

• Brad Wood – Software Architect and Platform Evangelist at Ortus Solutions, Corp

Transcript

Kadi
Rohan, you also had a conversation with not only a contributor about a maintainer. What were your thoughts on the conversation with Brad Wood?

Rohan
So he provided a perspective of what open-source maintainers, as well as contributors, look for. And there’s an interesting nuance between the needs of those two groups that came out, that I wasn’t necessarily clued into. So maintainers depend on contributions from different projects from different people in the world to keep the project relevant.

Contributors also take projects by means of their contributions to completely uncharted territory. And I think maintainers find that really satisfying from a creative standpoint. What I mean by that is, “Hey, this cool thing that I created (Read more...)