maintaine.rs

The maintaine.rs book is a curated collection of stories from top Open Source maintainers, gathered during GitHub's Maintainer Month in May 2025.

Each story is written in Markdown and compiled into a beautifully formatted PDF using pandoc.

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Installing on Debian/Ubuntu

sudo apt update
sudo apt install pandoc
sudo apt install texlive texlive-latex-extra

Follow the instructions from Eisvogel to install the template.

Generating the PDFs

This script generates two versions of the PDF: one optimized for online viewing with clickable inline links, and another formatted for print with footnotes.

python3 generate_pdf.py

License

All stories are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA). Attribution belongs to each individual author.