Projects Are Better When Maintained

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1. Projects Are Better When Maintained Justin Yost Dev at Loadsys @jtyost2 Justin Yost, CC BY-SA 4.0 1
2. Projects that are unmaintained, are not useful —Projects that look unmaintained wind up not being projects I want to use. Justin Yost, CC BY-SA 4.0 2
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5. What makes this look maintained Github Shields can show —current version —the Packagist page and download count —the license —the build status —the % of code covered —etc... Justin Yost, CC BY-SA 4.0 5
6. What does it really provide —It doesn't say the project is regularly updated —It doesn't say if the unit tests are any good —It doesn't say if it actually solves your problem —It doesn't say if the team behind it will actually respond to issues —etc.... Justin Yost, CC BY-SA 4.0 6
7. Solve for CakePHP 2.0 Plugins —Automated Testing setup for Travis is a fair bit of work for Cake 2 Plugins: Friends Of Cake: Travis —Other things a plugin needs (Readme/Composer/ License/etc) Loadsys: Plugin Skeleton Justin Yost, CC BY-SA 4.0 7
8. Solve for CakePHP 3.0 Plugins —Cake3 Travis testing is much easier, Friends of Cake has a Cake 3 branch for the travis repo: Friends Of Cake: Travis Justin Yost, CC BY-SA 4.0 8
9. Some hard and fast rules —Make it easy as possible for developers to get information they need to make decisions —Provide information that gives developers a stronger sense that the project will actually do what it says it will do (ie. unit tests, automated builds, documentation) —Try to respond to issues as soon as possible, at least triage them Justin Yost, CC BY-SA 4.0 9
10. What you can do —If your team has open source plugins, try to update them to either use the tools I pointed out or something else —We weren't always the best at this, we are trying to be better, I encourage you to be better too —Building some basic patterns for doing this makes it easy to do it in other places Justin Yost, CC BY-SA 4.0 10
11. Questions? Justin Yost @jtyost2 Justin Yost, CC BY-SA 4.0 11