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 VoxxedDays Milano 2019.

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1. TFW YOUR COUNTRY FUNDS TFW YOUR COUNTRY FUNDS OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT OPEN SOURCE DEVELOPMENT RICCARDO MAGLIOCCHETTI RICCARDO MAGLIOCCHETTI VOXXEDDAYS MILANO 2019 VOXXEDDAYS MILANO 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 10 CLOSED 1 OPEN
10. 22 PR MERGED 22 PR MERGED 10 BUGFIXES 6 I18N 6 CODE CLEANUPS
11. 1 REGRESSION :) 1 REGRESSION :)
12. ANSIBLE AUTOMATION ANSIBLE AUTOMATION
13. 0 NEW FEATURES 0 NEW FEATURES
14. 1 FEATURE FAIL 1 FEATURE FAIL
15. LESSONS LESSONS LEARNED LEARNED
16. BUILD TRUST BUILD TRUST WITH UPSTREAM WITH UPSTREAM BE PART OF THE COMMUNITY
17. A FORK IS A FORK IS A LONG LIVED BRANCH A LONG LIVED BRANCH FIX UPSTREAM, LESS DELTA DOWNSTREAM CONTRIBUTING TO OPEN SOURCE IS PART OF THE JOB
18. CONVENIENCE > PURITY CONVENIENCE > PURITY OVERRIDE INSTEAD OF PATCH CONFIGURATION FTW
19. SYNC WITH UPSTREAM: SYNC WITH UPSTREAM: REBASE VS MERGE REBASE VS MERGE
20. CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS NOT ALL PROJECT FORKS ARE BAD :) YOU CAN DELIVER VALUE WHILE CONTRIBUTING BACK TO OPEN SOURCE
21. THANKS! THANKS! GITHUB.COM/ITALIA GITHUB.COM/XRMX SPEAKERDECK.COM/XRMX @RMISTAKEN MENODIZERO.IT