Contributing to Swift

Swift is open source, and that means that any of us can dive in and get involved. No idea how to get involved? Neither did I! In this talk I’ll tell the story of the tiny contribution I made to Swift, and explore some ways you can help out too.

As presented at iOSoHo on May 8th 2017 https://www.meetup.com/iOSoho/events/238089171/

Transcript

1. Contributing to Swift by @neilkimmett
2. HARRY’S
17. http://bugreport.apple.com/
20. http://bugreport.apple.com/
22. https://swift.org
23. https://github.com/apple/swift
31. ‼
34. https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/1323
38. What can I do?
39. https://lists.swift.org
40. https://stylemac.com/hirundo/
41. https://apple.github.io/swift-evolution/
42. https://swiftweekly.github.io
43. https://spec.fm/podcasts/swift-unwrapped
44. @jckarter Joe Groff @UINT_MIN Jordan Rose @dgregor79 Doug Gregor @tkremenek Ted Kremenek @ericasadun Erica Sadun @modocache Brian Gesiak
46. https://bugs.swift.org
47. https://github.com/apple/swift
48. git clone https://github.com/apple/swift.git mkdir swift-source cd swift-source ./swift/utils/update-checkout --clone
49. Ninja
50. brew install cmake ninja
51. utils/build-script -h
52. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnT2ZeHVJe4
53. https://news.realm.io/news/tryswift-jesse-squires-contributing-open-source-swift/ Jesse Squires - Contributing to Open Source Swift
54. https://news.realm.io/news/slug-russ-bishop-contributing-open-source-swift-proposal/ Russ Bishop - Contributing to Swift: From Proposal to Shipped
55. No-one has any idea what they’re doing
58. Thanks! from @neilkimmett