Maintaining Open Source in the AI Era

I've been maintaining a handful of open source packages lately: mailview, mailjunky (in both Python and Ruby), and recently dusted off an old Ruby gem called tvdb_api. The experience has been illuminating - not just about package management, but about how AI is changing open source development in ways I'm still processing. The Packages mailview started because I missed letter_opener from the Ruby world. When you're developing a web application, you don't want emails actually being sent - you want to inspect them locally. In Rails, letter_opener handles this beautifully. In Python? The options were less elegant. So I built mailview: add the middleware to your FastAPI or ASGI app, and every outgoing email gets captured and displayed in a clean browser UI at /_mail. mailjunky is the SDK for a transactional email service I use. I wrote both Python and Ruby versions because I work across both ecosystems and wanted a consistent interface. The Python version powers the email notifications in