When I interview someone who is a free software maintainer then it's a really big plus because this shows me that they can handle maintainer ship which infers a

When I interview someone who is a free software maintainer then it's a really big plus because this shows me that they can handle maintainer ship which infers a lot of good qualities, from small facts like that they probably know git well and write good commit messages, to the fact that they know how to handle people in difficult situations when a inexperienced maintainer would let bad code slip in but a experienced one will fight for good solutions.