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Maintaining Open Source Projects

Maintaining Open Source Projects

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

Benjamin Fleischer

September 05, 2014
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  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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