Mike McQuaid
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Mike McQuaid
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Edinburgh-based product and engineering leader, ex-GitHub Principal Engineer (#232, 2013), with 18 years of experience reducing developer friction and scaling open-source to tens of millions of users.
Nope. Homebrew tends to be pretty "issue light". We prefer terrible draft PRs. Happy to discuss more in an easier medium as desired.
October 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Oh, interesting. We're also revamping our API JSON format soon so it'll be much slimmer which may help with that. There's also possibly ways we can speedup our JSON parsing that we're not doing? Our bundling our own Ruby may help...
October 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It "amazes" you because it's not at all what I've said.

I've been maintaining Homebrew for 16 years at a very regular cadence. It is used by a lot of people. I was asked to help out with governance, twice. I did. I have shared my very informed opinions about the topics of governance and access.
October 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM