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Caring for your baby ecosystem (Waza 2013)
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss
March 01, 2013
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March 01, 2013
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Transcript
Caring for your baby ecosystem Jacob Kaplan-Moss
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“Why did Django succeed?”
$ pip search django | wc -‐l 3763
“Django isn't a functional unit. You include it and it
just sits there.” — Chris McDonough
Metcalfe’s law: The utility of a network increases by the
square of its participants.
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1. Create APIs designed for extension.
1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be
a virtue.
1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be
a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.
1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be
a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.
“As a general rule you'll always be better off building
something external. The path to… built-in requires overwhelming evidence that this is useful to a vast majority of Django users.” — Me
“I'm not sure there's a place for this in core…
[but] it should be possible to use this library as a third party extension… [If there is refactoring that] would make this possible, I'm definitely open to making those changes.” — Russ Keith-Magee
ˑ Prefer adding extensibility over scratching itches.
ˑ “Pave the cow paths.”
1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be
a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.
“A rule of thumb that has worked well for me
is that if I’m excited to play around with something it probably doesn’t belong in production.” — Maciej Ceglowski (Pinboard)
1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be
a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.
Consider your “conversion funnel.”
Potential User User Community member Community contributor Core member Leader
Documentation (http://jacobian.org/writing/great-documentation/)
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1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be
a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.
ˑ Build ecosystems, not projects
ˑ Build ecosystems, not apps
ˑ Build ecosystems, not products
Thank you!
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