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Encouraging Community Development
This document discusses encouraging community development for open source projects. It defines community development as others contributing code, documentation, tutorials, bug reports and testing to a project. The author recommends asking for contributions and making the process easy. Project maintainers should be polite, responsive, maintain quality standards, accept criticism constructively and help first-time contributors. While maintaining standards, subpar contributions should be politely addressed by identifying issues and helping the contributor improve rather than being rude. Tools like GitHub, forums and giving credit can further encourage community development.
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Encouraging Community Development
- 1. Encouraging Community Development PippinWilliamson http://pippinsplugins.com @pippinsplugins facebook.com/pippinsplugins
- 2. What is communitydevelopment?
- 3. • Other peopledo “work” on your project What is community development?
- 4. • Other peopledo “work” on your project • Code contributions What is community development?
- 5. • Other peopledo “work” on your project • Code contributions • Written documentation What is community development?
- 6. • Other peopledo “work” on your project • Code contributions • Written documentation • Tutorials What is community development?
- 7. • Other peopledo “work” on your project • Code contributions • Written documentation • Tutorials • Bug reports What is community development?
- 8. • Other peopledo “work” on your project • Code contributions • Written documentation • Tutorials • Bug reports • Testing What is community development?
- 9. What kind ofprojects?
- 10. What kind ofprojects? • Themes –– _s, StartBox, Genesis
- 11. What kind ofprojects? • Themes –– _s, StartBox, Genesis • Plugins –– bbPress, Easy Digital Downloads, WP e-Commerce
- 12. What kind ofprojects? • Themes –– _s, StartBox, Genesis • Plugins –– bbPress, Easy Digital Downloads, WP e-Commerce • Libraries –– WP_Logging, Custom Meta Boxes and Fields, WP_Session
- 13. What kind ofprojects? • Themes –– _s, StartBox, Genesis • Plugins –– bbPress, Easy Digital Downloads, WP e-Commerce • Libraries –– WP_Logging, Custom Meta Boxes and Fields, WP_Session • Tools –– WP-CLI, WP Stack
- 14. How to encouragecontributions
- 15. • Ask forit How to encourage contributions
- 16. • Ask forit • Make it easy How to encourage contributions
- 17. • Ask forit • Make it easy • Give contributors credit How to encourage contributions
- 18. • Ask forit • Make it easy • Give contributors credit How to encourage contributions • Be nice
- 19. • Ask forit • Make it easy • Give contributors credit How to encourage contributions • Be nice • Help out the first timers
- 20. • Ask forit • Make it easy • Give contributors credit How to encourage contributions • Be nice • Help out the first timers • Give solid, polite feedback
- 21. How to continuegetting contributions
- 22. • Respond ina timely manner How to continue getting contributions
- 23. • Respond ina timely manner • Maintain quality How to continue getting contributions
- 24. • Respond ina timely manner • Maintain quality • Accept criticism How to continue getting contributions
- 25. • Respond ina timely manner • Maintain quality • Accept criticism How to continue getting contributions • Be constructive
- 26. • Respond ina timely manner • Maintain quality • Accept criticism How to continue getting contributions • Be constructive • Ask others for their opinions
- 27. • Respond ina timely manner • Maintain quality • Accept criticism How to continue getting contributions • Be constructive • Ask others for their opinions • Admit you are wrong
- 28. How to respondto bad patches?
- 29. How to respondto bad patches? “Thank you for taking the time to submit a patch, though there are a couple of things that need updated before I can approve it.”
- 30. How to respondto bad patches? “Thank you for taking the time to submit a patch, though there are a couple of things that need updated before I can approve it.” • List the issues clearly
- 31. How to respondto bad patches? “Thank you for taking the time to submit a patch, though there are a couple of things that need updated before I can approve it.” • List the issues clearly • Be polite
- 32. How to respondto bad patches? “Thank you for taking the time to submit a patch, though there are a couple of things that need updated before I can approve it.” • List the issues clearly • Be polite • Thank them for their contribution
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- 34. Maintain standards Do notlet crappy code in
- 35. Maintain standards There willalways be sub-par contributions.
- 36. Maintain standards There willalways be sub-par contributions. Do not allow them in just because they are contributions.
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- 39. Educate instead Identify thesub par contributions
- 40. Educate instead Identify thesub par contributions Your standards make or break the project.
- 41. Educate instead Identify thesub par contributions Your standards make or break the project. Help the submitter make it better.
- 42. Educate instead Identify thesub par contributions Your standards make or break the project. Help the submitter make it better. Developers get better the more they contribute.
- 43. Educate instead Identify thesub par contributions Your standards make or break the project. Help the submitter make it better. Developers get better the more they contribute –– encourage them.
- 44. Never be rudeor throw insults Some people are douches “special”.
- 45. Never be rudeor throw insults Some people are douches “special”. Take them down with kindness.
- 46. Never be rudeor throw insults Some people are douches “special”. Take them down with kindness. Do not EVER be rude back.
- 47. Never be rudeor throw insults Some people are douches “special”. Take them down with kindness. Do not EVER be rude back. –– stern is fine, not rude
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- 49. Tools to encouragecommunity development
- 50. Tools to encouragecommunity development github
- 51. Tools to encouragecommunity development
- 52. Tools to encouragecommunity development trac
- 53. Tools to encouragecommunity development
- 54. Tools to encouragecommunity development forums
- 55. Tools to encouragecommunity development
- 56. Tools to encouragecommunity development giving credit
- 57. Tools to encouragecommunity development
- 58. Tools to encouragecommunity development extensible code
- 59. Tools to encouragecommunity development you
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- 61. P.S. I really, reallylike plugins. Ask me about them.
Editor's Notes
- #28 “ Checkout User Experience”
- #33 Linux: Issue #17
- #38 Metabox plugin that lets all contributions in
- #44 Some people don’t want contributions because of possible sub-par code
- #46 Talk about jQuery and Roots -- “Loading your own jQuery is irresponsible” post
- #47 Talk about jQuery and Roots -- “Loading your own jQuery is irresponsible” post
- #48 Talk about jQuery and Roots -- “Loading your own jQuery is irresponsible” post