Finding co-maintainers for open source projects

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Published on 2012-11-08T20:09:30Z Indexed on 2012/11/08 23:15 UTC
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I have a number of open-source projects that have gotten some significant usage and would like to find co-maintainers so that I am not a bottleneck when it comes to maintenance and support requests and to get other perspectives on how the project should evolve.

Where should I look for co-maintainers, what should I look for in a co-maintainer, and how should I go about bringing them up to speed on the code and maintainer responsibilities?

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