Open Source Maintenance with Gary Kramlich

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
opensourcesecurity.io/2025/01-open_source_main…