Kent C. Dodds joined the show to talk about guiding and supporting first time contributors to open source. We talked about the many ways to be first-timer friendly, how to contribute to open source, the burden and balance of a maintainer, and a few of the projects Kent maintains, including his latest project at PayPal called Glamourous.
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Show Notes:
First Timers Onlyfirsttimersonly.com + GitHub repoall-contributors - ✨ Recognize all contributors, not just the ones who push code ✨all-contributors-cli[egghead.io] - How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHubChangelog.com on GitHubThanks to Marco Vito Moscaritolo for this PRThanks to Christian Franco for this PRstack-overflow-copy-paste - Utility functions copy/pasted (and modified slightly) from Stack OverflowManaging an Open Source Project - a talk from Kent C. DoddsThe Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source
with James Long
Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source by James LongHealthy Open Source by Mikeal RogersLearning to QuitGlamorous! Blog post + GitHub repoMake a Pull RequestAdam Stacoviak in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a peacekeeping mission with the United States Army in 2000.
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