Open Source and Companies with Nell Shamrell-Harrington
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Guest
Nell Shamrell-Harrington (https://twitter.com/nellshamrell): Senior Software Development Engineer at Chef (https://www.chef.io/), CTO of Operation Code (https://operationcode.org/). nellshamrell.com (http://www.nellshamrell.com/)
Summary
What's it like to run an Open Source project as part of your day job? How does open source change when it's backed by a company? Why is it useful for a company to run open source projects? Nell Shamrell-Harrington, who runs the Habitat project for Chef is on the show to talk about open source contributing and maintenance. You'll come away with some ways to be a better contributor and maintainer.
Notes
01:57 - Nell’s History Working on Open Source
- gibbon (https://github.com/amro/gibbon)
03:37 - Open Source Governance
- The FreeBSD Project (https://www.freebsd.org/)
07:07 - Chef, Having Community Discussions, and Handling RFCs and Contributions
- Chef Compliance (https://docs.chef.io/chef_compliance.html)
- Habitat (https://www.habitat.sh/)
13:48 - Being Involved in DevProgress (https://devprogress.us/) and Campaign Volunteering as a Developer
20:57 - Closed Source vs Open Source Development
25:48 - Advice for Getting Started in Open Source and Emphasis on Defined Codes of Conduct
27:44 - Accepting & Reviewing Pull Requests and Being Clear on What Tools Are For and Looking For in Contributions
32:29 - Common Mistakes Among Contributors and Maintainers
- RailsConf 2017: Teaching RSpec to Play nice with Rails by Sam Phippen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyPfrK1y1nc)
34:55 - Keeping Open Source Projects Sustainable
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