TFW your country funds Open Source development

The summary and the lesson learned on contributing to Read The Docs while building Docs Italia for the Italian Digital Transformation Team. Talk presented at Wordcamp Turin 2019.

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1. TFW YOUR COUNTRY FUNDS TFW YOUR COUNTRY FUNDS OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT RICCARDO MAGLIOCCHETTI RICCARDO MAGLIOCCHETTI WORDCAMP TORINO 2019 WORDCAMP TORINO 2019
2. WHOAMI WHOAMI PYTHONISTA, SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, CONSULTANT OSS CONTRIBUTOR
3. ITALIAN DIGITAL ITALIAN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION TEAM TRANSFORMATION TEAM MAKE PUBLIC SERVICES FOR CITIZENS AND BUSINESSES ACCESSIBLE IN AN EASY MANNER
4. DOCS ITALIA TEAM DOCS ITALIA TEAM ALBERTO TORIN DAVIDE PORROVECCHIO FIORELLA DE LUCA FRANCESCO OCCHIPINTI FRANCESCO ZAIA IACOPO SPALLETTI LEONARDO CAVALLUCCI PAOLO ROMOLINI RICCARDO MAGLIOCCHETTI
5. DOCS ITALIA
6. READ THE DOCS
7. WHY A FORK? WHY A FORK?
8. UPSTREAM UPSTREAM CONTRIBUTIONS CONTRIBUTIONS
9. 33 PULL REQUESTS 33 PULL REQUESTS 22 MERGED 9 CLOSED 2 OPEN
10. 22 PR MERGED 22 PR MERGED 10 BUGFIXES 6 I18N 6 CODE CLEANUPS
11. 1 REGRESSION :) 1 REGRESSION :)
12. 0 NEW FEATURES 0 NEW FEATURES
13. 1 FEATURE FAIL 1 FEATURE FAIL
14. DEPLOY AUTOMATION DEPLOY AUTOMATION
15. LESSONS LESSONS LEARNED LEARNED
16. BUILD TRUST BUILD TRUST WITH UPSTREAM WITH UPSTREAM
17. FIX UPSTREAM, FIX UPSTREAM, LESS DELTA DOWNSTREAM LESS DELTA DOWNSTREAM
18. CONVENIENCE > PURITY CONVENIENCE > PURITY OVERRIDE INSTEAD OF PATCH: HOOKS
19. A FORK IS A FORK IS A LONG LIVED BRANCH A LONG LIVED BRANCH
20. CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS NOT ALL PROJECT FORKS ARE BAD :) UPSTREAM WORK IS AN INVESTMENT
21. THANKS! THANKS! GITHUB.COM/ITALIA GITHUB.COM/XRMX SPEAKERDECK.COM/XRMX @RMISTAKEN MENODIZERO.IT