344: Maintaining Babel with Henry Zhu

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We talk with Henry Zhu about his role maintaining the open source project Babel including how to make decisions on what bugs, features, and pull requests to work on, the scope of Babel itself, financial support, and what it's like to be an open source maintainer in 2019.

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