Surveys

Our annual maintainer impact report shines a light on the most current and compelling evidence of the positive outcomes organizations can achieve when they invest directly in their open source software supply chain by paying maintainers.

More than 400 maintainers responded and shared details about their work, including how they fund it, who pays for it, and what kinds of security, maintenance, and documentation practices they have in place today or would consider in the future.

Hundreds of maintainers responded with thoughts about how they fund their work, what they enjoy about being a maintainer, what they don’t like so much, along with a host of other interesting insights.

Tidelift fielded our annual survey of technologists—including software developers, engineering executives and managers, architects, and devops pros—who build applications with open source.

In early 2021, Tidelift fielded its first-ever comprehensive survey of open source maintainers.

We highlight nine of the most interesting revelations that help us understand how to make open source work even better for development teams and the organizations they work within.

Eight key findings illustrating how to make open source even better for developers

Key open source usage trends in professional development teams

We share 9 key insights from the 2018 Tidelift professional open source survey.