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Open Source Security


Jan 20, 2025

In this episode, Gary Kramlich, the lead developer of Pidgin discusses the challenges and strategies of maintaining a 26-year-old open source messaging client.Gary tell us all about how a small team manages technical debt, handles library dependencies, and makes decisions about rewrites versus incremental improvements while supporting a broader open source ecosystem.

The accompaning blog can be found at

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/01-open_source_maintenance_with_gary_kramlich/