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• Trust is hard to establish in the DevOps ecosystem, especially for solo maintainers
• Invest in engineering resources and ensure personal security to mitigate the risk of hacks and attacks
• Bring other people into the inner circle and the maintainer track to share responsibilities and prevent catastrophic attrition
• Create processes to mitigate the lottery factor for solo maintainers
• Maintainers are the secure software supply chain and critical to preventing bad middleware and potential CVEs
• The story of npm event stream and the crypto bandit illustrates the importance of single maintainers in the broader secure software supply chain