April 10, 2017

First-time contributors and maintainer balance

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1 hour 13 minutes

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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Featuring:

Kent C. Dodds – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

First Timers Only

firsttimersonly.com + GitHub repo

all-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 GitHub

Changelog.com on GitHub

Thanks to Marco Vito Moscaritolo for this PR

Thanks to Christian Franco for this PR

stack-overflow-copy-paste - Utility functions copy/pasted (and modified slightly) from Stack Overflow

Managing an Open Source Project - a talk from Kent C. Dodds

The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source

with James Long

Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source by James Long

Healthy Open Source by Mikeal Rogers

Learning to Quit

Glamorous! Blog post + GitHub repo

Make a Pull Request

Adam Stacoviak in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a peacekeeping mission with the United States Army in 2000.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

...more

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April 10, 2017

First-time contributors and maintainer balance

Listen Later

1 hour 13 minutes

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.

Join the discussion

Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!

Sponsors:

Sentry – Get 30 days free when you sign up with the code changelog. Error reporting and notifications for JavaScript apps and the rest of your stack. Start tracking errors for free. Support for React, Angular, Ember, Vue, Backbone, and Node frameworks like Express and Koa.

Toptal – Hire the best freelance developers and designers with Toptal. Email [email protected] for a personal introduction.

GoCD – GoCD is an on-premise open source continuous delivery server created by ThoughtWorks that lets you automate and streamline your build-test-release cycle for reliable, continuous delivery of your product.

Featuring:

Kent C. Dodds – Website, GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

First Timers Only

firsttimersonly.com + GitHub repo

all-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 GitHub

Changelog.com on GitHub

Thanks to Marco Vito Moscaritolo for this PR

Thanks to Christian Franco for this PR

stack-overflow-copy-paste - Utility functions copy/pasted (and modified slightly) from Stack Overflow

Managing an Open Source Project - a talk from Kent C. Dodds

The Changelog #242: The Burden of Open Source

with James Long

Why I’m Frequently Absent from Open Source by James Long

Healthy Open Source by Mikeal Rogers

Learning to Quit

Glamorous! Blog post + GitHub repo

Make a Pull Request

Adam Stacoviak in Bosnia and Herzegovina on a peacekeeping mission with the United States Army in 2000.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

...more

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