Pinax Lessons Learned- DevICT

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1. Pinax Lessons Learned By Katherine “Kati” Michel
2. About Me
3. In Summary Without a long term strategy, Pinax became difficult to maintain. I’ll tell you the problems and possible solutions, so we can learn from it.
5. Time Machine: 2008
6. How It Began Personal Sites Inspiring Reusable Features
7. Fast Forward: 2017 Photo by Adam Gregory of https://atomimages509.wixsite.com/atom
8. How It Was Going 80 Projects and Apps account blog static stripe waitinglist zero company documents team-wiki wiki forums socialauth Pinax Themes Popular Pinax Apps Pinax Starter Projects django-user-accounts pinax-stripe pinax-announcements pinax-badges pinax-blog pinax-calendars pinax-cohorts pinax-comments pinax-documents pinax-eventlog pinax-events pinax-forums pinax-images pinax-invitations pinax-likes pinax-messages pinax-news pinax-notifications pinax-points pinax-ratings pinax-referrals pinax-submissions pinax-teams pinax-testimonials pinax-types pinax-waitinglist pinax-webanalytics pinax-wiki pinax-templates pinax-theme-bootstrap
9. How It Was Going GitHub Organization, Global Docs, and Slack
10. How It Was Going Sustainability lacking
11. Problem: Tribal knowledge Solution: Document the tribal knowledge
12. Pinax Documentation
13. Problem: Existing docs difficult to find, duplicated, and inconsistent Solution: One source of docs, easy to find, use
14. One Source of Docs
15. Problem: Variations in configurations Solution: Choose one configuration approach and implement across projects
16. One Configuration Approach
17. Problem: Lack of engagement with individuals Solution: Reduce backlog of issues and PRs and catch up with engagement
18. Engagement with Individuals • Over 160 issues closed • Over 100 PRs merged • Over 30 PRs closed • Countless questions answered in issues and Slack
19. Problem: Lack of engagement with the community Solution: Write more blog posts and publicize well
20. Engagement with Community
21. Problem: Tasks being done manually Solution: Automate tasks
22. Biggest Lesson Learned: Release Succeeded Due to My Communication and Teaching Skills • Blog posts attracted contributors • Release documentation enabled them to help, to mutual benefit
23. Thank You! Twitter: KatiMichel GitHub: KatherineMichel Email: kthrnmichel@gmail.com