When I moved from sending pull requests to open-source projects on GitHub to starting projects of my own and having different people send in their own pull requests with implementations and different ideas, I had a new-found level of respect for open-source maintainers.
Today we have countless open-source projects – from those powering a lot of the global technology infrastructure that we all build on today, to simple plugins that make it much easier to do certain things.
Each of these projects has maintainers that ensure their stability and integrity. As people are encouraged to contribute, it’s become more important than ever to ensure that these new contributions are properly tested, as easily as possible.
What do maintainers currently do?
Typically, maintainers use automated tests as the first line of defense to ensure that the pull request doesn’t break anything. However, to review it further, they are required to follow a rather tedious…
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