The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

First-time contributors and maintainer balance (Interview)

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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 – Website, 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.

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