Wherein we chat with Brian Fox about all things Maven. We hear the history of Maven Central, war stories, how Minecraft DDoSed the service, and discuss planning for the future of Maven and Java 9.

Special Guest: Brian Fox.

Links:

• Maven
• Maven Central Search
• Maven Central Repository
• Sonatype
• Brian on Twitter
• Brian in GitHub
• FOSDEM Package Management Devroom CFP

Wherein we discuss Dart and Pub with Natalie Weizenbaum. We discuss how Dart and Pub are being used and developed within Google and a potential new algorithm for more user friendly dependency resolution error messages.

Special Guest: Natalie Weizenbaum.

Links:

• Pub: Dart Package Manager
• Pub on GitHub
• Dart programming language
• AngularDart
• Flutter
• Bob Nystrom
• gclient — gclient
• Sass: Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets
• Sass Eyeglass
• DPLL algorithm - Wikipedia
• Natalie on GitHub
• Natalie on Twitter

Wherein we discuss Go and Dep with Sam Boyer. We discuss how he led the improvements to package management for the Go ecosystem and went deep on satisfiability and how it relates to dependency resolution.

Special Guest: Sam Boyer.

Links:

• dep on GitHub
• The Go Programming Language
• gps on GitHub
• glide on GitHub
• The Saga of Go Dependency Management
• Go Package Management Tools
• So you want to write a package manager
• gopkg.in
• The New Era of Go Package Management
• Satisfiability - Wikipedia
• MiniSat
• Horn clauses
• The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 6: Satisfiability
• Conflict-Driven Clause Learning
• Backjumping
• Gophers on Slack
• Sam on Twitter
• Sam on GitHub

Wherein we discuss Rubygems and Bundler with André Arko. We discuss how he became the lead maintainer of Rubygems and Bundler, and what lead him to set up Ruby Together.

Special Guest: André Arko.

Links:

• RubyGems
• Bundler
• RubyGems on GitHub
• Bundler on GitHub
• geminstaller
• Bundler 2.0 - Breaking Changes
• Ruby Together
• Trade association
• Ruby Central
• OpenCollective
• Ulysses pact
• Contributing to Bundler
• From no OSS experience to the core team in 15 minutes a day
• Contributing to RubyGems
• André's Website
• André's Twitter
• André on GitHub

Wherein we discuss CocoaPods, a package manager for macOS/iOS development, with lead maintainer Orta Therox. We discuss how he got started contributing to Cocoapods, the arrival of Swift Package Manager and Orta's latest project, Danger.

Special Guest: Orta Therox.

Links:

• CocoaPods
• CocoaPods on GitHub
• Eloy Durán
• CocoaDocs
• Swift Package Manager
• CocoaPods App
• React Native
• Yarn
• Danger
• Peril
• Danger JS
• Contributing to CocoaPods
• CocoaPods on Twitter
• Orta's Website
• Orta's Twitter
• Orta on GitHub

Wherein we chat with Mike McQuaid, the lead maintainer of Homebrew. We discuss how he got started contributing to Homebrew, its differences from Macports, using GitHub as a database, patching upstream, and more.

Special Guest: Mike McQuaid.

Links:

• Homebrew website
• Homebrew on GitHub
• Homebrew Formula Documentation
• MacPorts website
• Max Howell
• Homebrew Taps
• Linuxbrew
• ilovezfs on GitHub
• Homebrew Analytics
• Homebrew Code of Conduct
• Probot: Stale
• Reproducible Builds
• Homebrew Bundle
• Contributing to Homebrew
• Mike's website
• Mike's Twitter
• Mike on GitHub