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Bug Requests & Pull Reports

Bug Requests & Pull Reports

Getting people to contribute to open source can be hard. This talk looks at Powder, a simple Ruby gem, and some of the ways we tried to to turn bug reports into pull requests.

rodreegez

April 22, 2012
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  1. Chapters 1/. Dealing with people 2/. Bug requests & pull

    reports 3/. No issues, just pull requests 4/. Documentation, front and centre 5/. The moral of the story
  2. “well I just found a couple of issues but i

    am a newb at ruby so I can’t help so I’ll just keep my mouth shut” http://logicalfriday.com/2011/11/04/powder-no-issues-policy/#comment-198