After maintaining CMB for some time, I’ve had to learn some of the principles in the following articles the hard way, and am planning on integrating those that I haven’t yet.

“Merge pull request” Considered Harmful

• The ‘Merge Pull Request’ button, although convenient, tends to create more work for the software maintainer.

Code changes should be hard to get accepted

• As open source software maintainers, it’s a hard balance to encourage community involvement while also guarding the quality/quantity of your software project.

Technical debt 101

• ‘A primer about technical debt, legacy code, big rewrites and ancient wisdom for non technical managers’