Being a maintainer, or even a notable contributor in an open source project is a damn hard job. Not only are you expected to tackle the hardest programming tasks, but suddenly you're also expected to do all these "softer" things - review other people's work, provide feedback, ramp up other contributors, etc. In this talk from DevConf.us 2018, I've shown how your gut instinct as an engineer - to automate everything - can actually work here too (at least to a certain degree), and take a lot of the load off your shoulders.