Maintaining Open Source Projects

Lightning talk at Windy City Rails 2014-09-05
Video: http://vimeo.com/107470399

Transcript

1. M A I N TA I N I N G O P E N
   S O U R C E P R O J E C T S
   B E N J A M I N . F L E I S C H E R @ R A I S E . C O M
   @ H A Z U L A
   

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2. A . K . A . A L L Y O U R C O D E
   A R E B E L O N G T O U S
   

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3. Have you ever had trouble using a gem?
   • “It doesn’t work in some way” or
   !
   • “It’s missing a feature” or
   !
   • “There is no/missing documentation”
   

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4. W H AT C A N Y O U D O A B O U T I T ?
   H A V I N G T R O U B L E W I T H A G E M
   • give up
   • complain
   • write ugly hack
   • blog about it
   

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5. W H AT C A N Y O U D O A B O U T I T ?
   H A V I N G T R O U B L E W I T H A G E M
   You are part of the code community.
   You can give back!
   

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6. W H AT C A N Y O U D O A B O U T I T ?
   H A V I N G T R O U B L E W I T H A G E M
   • Ask a question / discuss the issue
   on the mailing list, if any
   • Create an issue in the repository.
   • Fork the repository and make a Pull
   Request
   • Add documentation or helpful
   information to the wiki
   

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7. # R U B Y F R I E N D S
   

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8. # R U B Y F R I E N D S
   

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9. # R U B Y F R I E N D S
   

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10. # F R I D AY H U G
    

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36. R U B Y G E M A D O P T I O N
    

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37. M A I N TA I N I N G O P E N
    S O U R C E P R O J E C T S
    B E N J A M I N . F L E I S C H E R @ R A I S E . C O M
    @ H A Z U L A
    https://speakerdeck.com/bf4/
    maintaining-open-source-projects
    

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