jlevers

I maintain a fairly large open source PHP SDK [1] (4.6M downloads at the moment) for Amazon's Selling Partner API. The project is about 4 years old at this point.

Amazon just started building their own PHP SDK for the same API (which is incomplete and way behind my library in terms of features/ecosystem), and I opened an issue pointing them at my SDK. I now have a meeting with them next week, and ahead of the meeting I'm curious to hear what other OSS maintainers' experiences have been with collaborating with large companies. Not sure what to expect.

[1] https://github.com/jlevers/selling-partner-api

Many people who are excellent at something cite their mentors as a major reason for their skills and success. If you've had an impactful mentor of any kind (not just programming-related), how did you meet them and how did they impact you?

Or, mentees: how did you decide to take on someone less experienced? What was the experience of mentoring someone like?

I'm a relatively new freelancer, and I haven't found a great way invoice clients. My current strategy depends on the client -- some people I email a work summary each week, some I'm in constant contact with while working so I just tell them the number of hours, and some I invoice via a self-hosted Invoice Ninja[0] instance.

Have you found a way to deal with this that you're happy with?