[paper] How to support open-source software and stay sane

How to support open-source software and stay sane

Anna Nowogrodzki

Nature 571, 133-134 (2019)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02046-0

Releasing lab-built open-source software often involves a mountain of unforeseen work for the developers.

It’s a familiar problem: open-source software is widely acknowledged as crucially important in science, yet it is funded non-sustainably. Support work is often handled ad hoc by overworked graduate students and postdocs, and can lead to burnout [read more...]