Stories in Open Source

Tobias Pfeiffer

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Mar. 06, 2020

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Stories in Open Source

Mar. 06, 2020

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What’s it like to work on Open Source projects? They’re all the same aren’t they? No, they’re not - the longer I worked on Open Source the more I realize how different the experience is for each one of them. Walk with me through some stories that happened to me in Open Source and let’s see what we can take away.

Tobias Pfeiffer

Software Engineer (Student)

What’s it like to work on Open Source projects? They’re all the same aren’t they? No, they’re not - the longer I worked on Open Source the more I realize how different the experience is for each one of them. Walk with me through some stories that happened to me in Open Source and let’s see what we can take away.

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Stories in Open Source

1. First contact
2. gedit
3. gedit
4. gedit
5. The End
6. The End needless work
7. The End needless work missing triaging
8. The End needless work missing triaging no appreciation
9. The End needless work missing triaging frustration no appreciation
10. Stories in Open Source Tobias Pfeiffer @PragTob pragtob.info
11. Shoes.app width: 300, height: 200 do background lime..blue stack do para "Welcome to the world of Shoes!" button "Click me" do alert "Nice click!" end image "http:./shoesrb.com/img/shoes-icon.png", margin_top: 20, margin_left: 10 end end
12. Welcoming, friendly & helpful
13. OSS friends
14. Give people access
15. Release early, release often
16. You are not your OSS
17. class Dog def bark puts 'Woooof' end end Dog.extend AfterDo Dog.after :bark do puts 'I just heard a dog bark!' end dog = Dog.new dog.bark # Output is: # Woooof # I just heard a dog bark! after_do
18. micro libraries are great
19. you have no idea how it’s used
20. list = Enum.to_list(1..10_000) map_fun = fn i .> [i, i * i] end Benchee.run( %{ "flat_map" .> fn .> Enum.flat_map(list, map_fun) end, "map.flatten" .> fn .> list .> Enum.map(map_fun) .> List.flatten() end }, time: 10, memory_time: 2 ) benchee
21. learn as you go
22. just being better isn’t enough
23. co-maintainers
24. We made it!
25. SimpleCov
26. “legacy” OSS
27. joy of impact
28. you don’t owe people
29. nightmares of integration
30. First step into OSS
31. Please report issues!
32. Be nice!
33. Be nice! Minimize
34. Be nice! Minimize Reproduce
35. Discuss!
36. (Maybe) add a PR!
37. OSS vs Work
38. OSS Be nice!
39. OSS Be nice! Your OSS, your time
40. OSS Be nice! Your OSS, your time Adoption takes time
41. OSS seemingly even less diverse
42. OSS seemingly even less diverse is this sustainable?
43. OSS seemingly even less diverse is this sustainable? what about people using OSS for “evil”?
44. friends
45. friends
46. friends
47. friends first talks
48. friends first talks
49. friends first talks
50. friends first talks
51. friends first talks learning
52. friends first talks learning all other projects
53. friends first talks learning all other projects
54. @PragTob Enjoy OSS