Caring for your baby ecosystem (Waza 2013)

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Caring for your baby ecosystem Jacob Kaplan-Moss [email protected]

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“Why did Django succeed?”

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$ pip search django | wc -‐l 3763

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“Django isn't a functional unit. You include it and it just sits there.” — Chris McDonough

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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.

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1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be a virtue.

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1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.

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1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.

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“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

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“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

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ˑ Prefer adding extensibility over scratching itches.

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ˑ “Pave the cow paths.”

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1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.

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“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)

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1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.

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Consider your “conversion funnel.”

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Potential User User Community member Community contributor Core member Leader

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Documentation (http://jacobian.org/writing/great-documentation/)

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Outreach

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Transparency

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Documentation Outreach Transparancy

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1. Create APIs designed for extension. 2. Conservatism can be a virtue. 3. Involve and empower your community.

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