From a6fda8e3ea9c8e4e85a643bc1df70f7813e0f8e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kenneth Reitz Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:29:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Fix facts: BDFL not primary maintainer, 30M/day not tens of millions/month Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) --- data/essays/2026-03-22-the_maintainer_is_the_interface.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/data/essays/2026-03-22-the_maintainer_is_the_interface.md b/data/essays/2026-03-22-the_maintainer_is_the_interface.md index e9a6b56..8ea392c 100644 --- a/data/essays/2026-03-22-the_maintainer_is_the_interface.md +++ b/data/essays/2026-03-22-the_maintainer_is_the_interface.md @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ response = requests.get("https://api.example.com/data") ## What I Learned from Scale -I was the primary maintainer of [Requests](/software/requests) for over a decade, with help from several dedicated co-maintainers along the way. At its peak, it was being downloaded tens of millions of times a month. The issue tracker was relentless. The PR queue was always full. The community was enormous and vocal and, for the most part, extraordinarily generous. +I was the BDFL of [Requests](/software/requests) for over a decade, with help from several dedicated co-maintainers along the way. It's downloaded over 30 million times a day. The issue tracker was relentless. The PR queue was always full. The community was enormous and vocal and, for the most part, extraordinarily generous. I want to tell the truth about what that was like, because the truth is more instructive than the mythology.