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Maintaining a Popular Project and Managing Burnout (Request For Commits #15)

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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, getting funding, the challenges of having money, raising the profile of a project, focusing on the needs of a community, and managing burnout.

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    • Featuring:

    • Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
    • Nadia Eghbal – GitHub, X
    • Mikeal Rogers – GitHub, X

    Show Notes:

    • Mocha - the fun, simple, flexible JavaScript test framework
    • mochajs/mocha on GitHub
    • Mocha on GitHub
    • Mocha on Open Collective
    • Mocha on npm

      • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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