Abby Cabunoc Mayes

“somewhat prominent member of the OSS community” open source @github, @openjsf & @SustainOSS Alum:@mozilla @UN 📸@facesopensource // @[email protected]

[Abby Cabunoc Mayes @abbycabs]

Has mentoring in open source gotten harder?

I wrote up my #FOSDEM talk on the @github blog

The core framework: Comprehension, Context, Continuity. Comprehension and Context get you reviewed. Continuity gets you mentored.

https://t.co/PpjGJYrAD4

[Abby Cabunoc Mayes @abbycabs]

AI is changing open source.

What happens to contributor pathways, maintainers, and community health along the way?

Let's talk about it.

(I'll be joining between newborn naps 🐣)

SustainOSS AI, FLOSS & Sustainability Forum:
https://t.co/ZGujmClZi6

[Camilla Moraes @moraes_c_]

drowning in low-quality PRs?

we're giving maintainers the power to set contribution limits, starting with a PR cap for outside contributors and an allowlist for your trusted ones.

sneak peek below 👇

[Abby Cabunoc Mayes @abbycabs]

@acolombiadev thank you!

[Abby Cabunoc Mayes @abbycabs]

Two big arrivals this May 💜🐣

https://t.co/VXFma9WIUU

#MaintainerMonth

[Camilla Moraes @moraes_c_]

👋 I'm the PM on GitHub's Maintainer Love team, and we're focused on making your life easier.

If you could wave a magic wand, what is the #1 feature you'd want us to ship? No idea is too tiny - the smallest changes often have the biggest impact.

Drop your wishes below. 👇

[Sameen Karim @sameenkarim]

Excited to share our progress on @GitHub Stacked PRs 🥞

[Matthew Isabel @matthewisabel]

Ever visit a GitHub Issue and wonder when the fix shipped?

Release info is now directly included in the issue sidebar alongside the linked PR.

[Cassidy @cassidoo]

You can now create GitHub Issues directly from Slack in natural language!

Mention @GitHub in any channel and describe your work, and the app creates structured Issues in your repo (and sub-issues, too).

[Martin Woodward @martinwoodward]

Hey folks, had some conversations about this today so thought it would be helpful to be clear.

GitHub does not and does not plan to include advertisements on the platform.

We recently identified a programming logic issue in the GitHub Copilot coding agent that caused a 'product tip', including a third-party suggestion, to appear incorrectly in a pull request comment. This issue was introduced on March 24 during a rollout that expanded Copilot’s ability to contribute to any pull request when requested to by a developer.

As a result, a third-party link was mistakenly displayed in a way that could be interpreted as a promotion. Our goal was to share novel ways to use Copilot coding agent, and in this case, we highlighted our integration with Raycast as part of a broader set of product tips, but this was surfaced more frequently than intended alongside other feature suggestions. We have removed Copilot agent tips from all pull requests moving forward.

We appreciate the community flagging this and apologize for the error.

[Helen 侯-Sandí @helenhousandi]

Is it building in the open or is it getting excited about what our team is cooking 👀

[Cassidy @cassidoo]

This has been a HUGE ask from maintainers for a while, super excited about it shipping!

Turn off comments on commits:

[Abby Cabunoc Mayes @abbycabs]

A local GitHub meetup in Toronto?? Count me in ✨

GitHub Copilot Dev Days - Toronto #1 is April 2nd and I'm so here for it. Demos, lightning talks, snacks, and community. Drop me a line if you'll be there!

https://t.co/hHcFrMYcmu

[Ben De St Paer-Gotch @Nebuk89]

Two of the top GitHub Actions community requests are now live

1. Timezone support in crons

schedule:
- cron '30 5 * * 1-5'
timezone: "America/New_York"

2. Use environments without auto-deployments

environment:
name: staging
deployment: false

[GitHub @github]

The standard libraries already include π. But where’s the fun in that?
Happy #PiDay! 🍕

[Angie Jones @techgirl1908]

I have built one of the strongest DevRel teams in the game! We are often praised by other companies for how we're educating the software engineering industry as they are incorporating AI into their workflows.

My team is at the bleeding edge of agentic engineering. They have been on the front line learning, building, and teaching AI.

Unfortunately, with the latest Block RIF, the majority of them are on the market. If you're looking for a Developer Relations Engineer, Technical Community Manager, or Tech Writer who is well versed in AI and creating impactful content, I have an entire roster available.

Please reach out to me for your next hire 🙏🏽

[Abby Cabunoc Mayes @abbycabs]

Full conversation with Mitchell: https://t.co/sR5WDm8s1e

If this resonates, I tried to turn the same problem into a short, practical FOSDEM talk: tactics maintainers are using to keep mentorship sustainable as volume scales. Recording: https://t.co/41REfLxXtQ

[Abby Cabunoc Mayes @abbycabs]

“AI is destroying my humanity.” @mitchellh (HashiCorp; Ghostty, Vouch). From a conversation @helenhousandi and I had with him.

Not an anti-AI take. A maintainer capacity take. Creation got cheaper. Review didn’t.

Maintainers: what’s helped you keep mentoring sustainable?

[Helen 侯-Sandí @helenhousandi]

I made a little off-the-cuff remark about "the joy of being a maintainer" while interviewing @mitchellh with @abbycabs last week and can't stop thinking about it so I wrote about what brings me joy as a maintainer :) https://t.co/Gp6SKXDLCw

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

I'll be live on OSS Friday by GitHub in ~45 minutes.