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title: "Meet the Maintainer: Yash Sharma"
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subtitle: "An interview series with open source maintainers"
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date: 2024-11-01 10:30:05 -0530
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author: Hargun Kaur
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thumbnail: ./yash-sharma-meshery-maintainer.png
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darkthumbnail: ./yash-sharma-meshery-maintainer.png
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description: Meet the Maintainer series with open source maintainer, Yash Sharma
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type: Blog
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category: Open Source
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tags:
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- Open Source
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published: true
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import { BlogWrapper } from "../../Blog.style.js";
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import img from "./yash-sharma-meshery-maintainer.png";
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import { MeetTheMaintainer } from "../../MeetTheMaintainer.style.js";
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import { Link } from "gatsby";
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import ForkLift from "../../../../assets/images/app/hero/forklift.svg";
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<BlogWrapper>
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<MeetTheMaintainer>
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<div class="intro">
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<p>
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Continuing in our Meet the Maintainer series, we have{" "}
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<Link to="/community/members/yash-sharma">Yash Sharma</Link>. Yash is a
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maintainer of <Link to="/cloud-native-management/meshery">Meshery UI</Link>.
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In this interview, we get to know Yash a little better and learn about his
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journey as an open source project maintainer and with Layer5 community.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="interviewer">
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<span>Hargun:</span>
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<p>
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Yash, thank you for joining me today. Many people inside and outside of the
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Layer5 Community have seen the effects of your contributions, but may not
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know the backstory as to who Yash is and how you arrived at your maintainer
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role. Indulge us. How did you discover the Layer5 community? What made you
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stay?
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="interviewee">
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<span>Yash:</span>
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<p>
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Thanks for having me, Hargun, I got into open source about two years ago,
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not really expecting to get so wrapped up in it. I found Layer5 and the
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community through a Twitter post and thought, "Why not?" So, I jumped in.
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The more I got involved, the more I saw how pumped the team and maintainers
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were about Meshery and helping others, and it just got me hooked. I started
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with some smaller, more routine issues but quickly moved on to bigger
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challenges and started getting recognized. One time, during a meeting, Lee
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said something that stuck with me, it’s become one of my go-to quotes. He
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was like, "You don't start working like a maintainer after becoming one, you
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act like a maintainer and do the work before you're promoted." That really
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clicked for me. So I started thinking like a maintainer, doing the stuff
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that isn’t always glamorous but really matters. Eventually, I took on more
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responsibilities, and before I knew it, I became a maintainer.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="interviewer">
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<span>Hargun:</span>
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<p>
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You’re a <Link to="/cloud-native-management/meshery">Meshery</Link> maintainer and have been for some long time now. What does being a Meshery maintainer mean to you?
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="interviewee">
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<span>Yash:</span>
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<p>
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Honestly, being a maintainer is about taking responsibility for a big part
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of the project with taking care of small things too at the same time, and I
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really enjoy that. One of my favourite things about it is that it lets me
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think more broadly about what we’re doing. As a contributor, you often focus
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on the details, but as a maintainer, you get to step back and see the bigger
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picture, which is super rewarding.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="interviewer">
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<span>Hargun:</span>
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<p>
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Have you worked with any other open source project? How does Layer5 compare?
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="interviewee">
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<span>Yash:</span>
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<p>
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I’ve contributed to other open source projects, but I didn’t really get a
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chance to get involved deeply. I think it’s mostly because a lot of those
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projects don’t have an active community, which makes it tough to get
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involved. However, when I joined Layer5, everything changed. I quickly
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figured out how to start contributing, and the community managers were super
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helpful and always around to give a hand. You just don’t see that kind of
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support in a lot of other open source projects.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="interviewer">
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<span>Hargun:</span>
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<p>
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<Link to="/projects">Layer5 projects</Link> have a number of active, open
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source projects. You’ve been consistently contributing to a few of them.
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Which one(s) are you currently focusing on?
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="interviewee">
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<span>Yash:</span>
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<p>
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Absolutely, Layer5 has a number of active open source projects, and I’ve
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contributed to quite a few of them. But my main focus has been on Meshkit,
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Sistent, Meshery Extensions, and, of course, Meshery itself.
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="interviewer">
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<span>Hargun:</span>
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<p>What’s the coolest Meshery demo you have done/seen?</p>
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</div>
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<span>Yash:</span>
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Haha good one, this year I got a chance to represent Meshery at KubeCon
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which was really an amazing experience for me. I gave a demo of Kanvas and
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during representation and during that I was collaborating with another user
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which really showed Meshery’s capability.
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</p>
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</div>
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<span>Hargun:</span>
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<p>What is your favorite feature in Meshery UI?</p>
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<span>Yash:</span>
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<Link to="https://meshery.io/">Meshery</Link> is an extensible platform and I like this feature of it, it gives Meshery a whole new powerful capability to interact with various
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technologies in the ecosystem and use it as an extension. My favourite one
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is Kanvas, though.
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</p>
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<span>Hargun:</span>
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<p>What is your hot tip for working with Meshery that others may not know?</p>
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</div>
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<span>Yash:</span>
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<p>
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I definitely encourage you to join the meetings. They’re a great way to
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connect with the maintainers in real time. Text chats just don’t do it
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justice when it comes to letting them really get to know you. Video calls
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are way better for that and give you a chance to show yourself to the
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project leaders and maintainers.
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</p>
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<div class="interviewer">
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<span>Hargun:</span>
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<p>
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Where do you see opportunities for contributors to get involved within
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Meshery and Layer5 community?
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<span>Yash:</span>
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<p>
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Meshery is growing very fast, it is the 9th fastest growing project under
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CNCF. There are many opportunities open for you to contribute. Start
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with joining community, introducing yourself and sharing your skill. This
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will help community managers to put you in right direction based on your
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skills. All areas are consistently in need of help, including best at this
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time to contribute like Meshery's CLI client, Meshery Server and digital
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marketing.
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<br/>
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Out of a 100+ repos that the Layer5 community stewards, two are currently closed: Kanvas and Cloud. Both of these projects were created and are actively being developed by open source contributors, though. There are ~15 open source contributors who working on it now, who meet daily. New contributors in the community routinely express interest and are invited to participate, and are extremely well supported as they do. In other words, the source is currently closed (subject to change), but any community member here that shows interest, demonstrates competence and consistency of participation is readily invited to join in.
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<br/>
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The core team working on these two projects meets Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri at 9:00am Central / 7:30pm IST on <Link to = "https://meet.layer5.io/team">meet.layer5.io/team</Link>. You are most encouraged and welcome to partake.
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<br/>
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Between the two projects, ~100 different contributors have helped create these two project to date.
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<Link to ="https://layer5.io/community/handbook/repository-overview"> This</Link> list of repositories and the expandable note on the page offers some additional context as well.
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</p>
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<span>Hargun:</span>
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<p>
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Your most often used emoji? Your preference: movie or book? Morning person
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or night owl? What have you worked on in the past six months that you’re
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particularly proud of?
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<span>Yash:</span>
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<p>
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I’d definitely recommend reading 'Six Easy Pieces' by Richard Feynman. It’s
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a fantastic book, especially if you’re a science lover like me, haha.
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<span>Hargun:</span>
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<p>
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Do you have any advice for individuals hopeful to become Layer5 contributors
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or potentially maintainers?
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</p>
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<span>Yash:</span>
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<p>
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Good question, I’d say think about the long-term. People are more likely to
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invest in you if they see you’re committed for the long term. If you seem
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like you’re just looking for a quick win, it sends a message to the
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maintainers that they might not want to put too much into you. And of course
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try to make high-quality contributions; it doesn't matter if it’s small or
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big.
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</p>
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<span>Hargun:</span>
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<p>
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In other words, whether your contribution is big or small, it sounds like
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aiming for high-quality contributions that add value to the projects is key.
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</p>
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<span>Yash:</span>
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<p>You summarized it perfectly, yes I agree with you Hargun.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="note">
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<img src={ForkLift} height="100px" />
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<p>
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The Meshery project moves at an impressive pace thanks to maintainers like
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Yash. Be like Yash. Join the{" "}
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<a href="https://slack.layer5.io">Layer5 Slack</a> and say “hi".
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</p>
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</div>
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</MeetTheMaintainer>
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