Changelog Interviews – Episode #364
Maintainer spotlight! Valeri Karpov
maintaining Mongoose, the MongoDB object modeler
In this episode we’re shining our maintainer spotlight on Valeri Karpov. Val has been the solo maintainer of Mongoose since 2014. This episode with Val continues our maintainer spotlight series where we dig deep into the life of an open source software maintainer. We’re producing this series in partnership with Tidelift. Huge thanks to Tidelift for making this series possible.
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Transcript
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Val, first of all, welcome to the show… Secondly, I’d like to say that we were recommended to speak to you - or specifically I think about somebody who maintains Mongoose; it’s probably not just yourself - by Abishek Ali. Is it just you?
It’s primarily me.
Okay, so then you are the one that was recommended… Abishek Ali in our Slack channel recommended that we talk to a Mongoose person, and then I looked up your GitHub and I saw “Wow, a prolific open source contributor.” Your contributor graph was almost completely green, and I thought “Yeah, this is a maintainer spotlight candidate right here”, so… Welcome to the show.
Yeah, I completely green, three-and-a-half years and coming…