October 05, 2021

67: Building a Healthy Community

40 minutes

We talk about ways we can all contribute to building a healthy Elixir community. The Elixir community is a welcoming, encouraging and helpful place and we want to help keep it that way! We talk about common problems facing maintainers, tips for engaging productively, the value of expressing appreciation, and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/67

Elixir Community News

https://www.erlang.org/news/149 – Erlang/OTP 24.1 was released

https://github.com/livebook-dev/nerves_livebook – Nerves Livebook is now part of the Livebook organization on GitHub

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4ZtdiDIxP_rPMQ5VmVhs4CKJ – ElixirConf EU 2021 keynote videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sNmJtoKDCo – Saša Jurić's presentation on Clarity

https://twitter.com/CodeBEAMio/status/1441149132278665235 – Code Beam America switched back to virtual

https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix/status/1441020298141253633 – Phoenix.HTML from 3.0.0-3.0.3 had a security vulnerability. Please update to 3.0.4+

https://hex.pm/packages/phoenix_html – Phoenix HTML package page

https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1.6-released – Phoenix 1.6.0 was released! This includes the esbuild by default change.

https://fly.io/blog/how-we-got-to-liveview/ – Chris McCord's post telling the story of "How We Got to LiveView"

https://thinkingelixir.com/petal-stack-in-elixir/ – Reminder of the PETAL stack and how central LiveView is to it.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir#issues-tracker-management – Explanation of the Elixir's Issue Tracker Management policy

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir#proposing-new-features – Resource for proposing Elixir features

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues – Elixir's well maintained issue tracker

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html – How to Report Bugs Effectively

https://opensource.guide/best-practices/ – GitHub's Best Practices for Maintainers

https://go.darrenhardy.com/darrendaily/ – Darren Hardy daily email messages.

https://darrenhardy.cDarren Daily-om/darrendaily-on-demand – Podcast form of the daily messages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6cFvXb9_A – YouTube video of the "jerk" segment called "A Simple Way to Change Other People"

https://twitter.com/adamwathan – Adam Wathan, maintainer of TailwindCSS

Points to consider when interacting with different projects and maintainers.

Every project is different.

Maintainers work in their spare time. They are not obligated to help you. Make it easier for them to reproduce problems.

Provide good bug reports.

Keep your emotions out of it.

https://twitter.com/tylerayoung/status/1438824261947363329 – Tyler Young's comments on importance of maintainers setting a tone.

https://twitter.com/redrapids/status/1438111195886673929 – Bruce Tate's call to action. Let people and project know you appreciate their work.

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir

Email the show - [email protected]

Mark Ericksen - @brainlid

David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

Cade Ward - @cadebward

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