Dispelling the 'Genius Programmer' Myth

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Dispelling The ‘Genius Programmer’ Myth   (Through Code Review) Ashwini Oruganti twitter.com/@_ashfall_ DjangoCon US 2016

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✦ Software Engineer, Eventbrite ✦ (ex) Director, Python Software Foundation ✦ PyCA/TLS ✦ Twisted, HippyVM

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Genius!

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Open Source Contributions!

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☺

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Fears of a new programmer

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Clever people don’t make mistakes, right?

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Leaders exist. Heroes don’t.

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Why won’t you “just merge it”?

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“I hope that’s not my project” -Every maintainer in the room

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Contributing Basics

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contributing.txt

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Respect the process

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Split reviews into smaller diffs.

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Work with your reviewer.

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Criticism is not evil.

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Iterate failures quickly.

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Document every effort.

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Hi Maintainers!

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Social problems cannot be solved with technical solutions.

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If you care deeply about a style, document it *visibly*.

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It’s OK to not like things, be nice about it.

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“Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Never.”

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1. Mention the change. 2. Provide a self-contained example. 3. Describe the effects of the change.

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Respect the volunteer’s time. “Thanks! This looks really good. IPv6 has a number of subtleties, so I have quite a few review comments, but I want to emphasize that the code does look good and you’re deﬁnitely going in the right direction. :)”

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