> Ask yourself this: who is the most famous maintainer you can think of? I can think of a few, actually. Pretty much every BDFL in every open source project ev

> Ask yourself this: who is the most famous maintainer you can think of? I can think of a few, actually. Pretty much every BDFL in every open source project ever. Most famous is probably Linus Torvalds. He invented the first version of Linux, yes, but he's been primarily a maintainer not inventor ever since.