This document summarizes the key aspects of jQuery's open source process that contributed to its early success. In the first month, new users were able to get started quickly by exploring the simple API through tutorials. An active community provided support through forums, IRC, blogs and Twitter. Documentation and examples helped users learn and expand their skills. Over the first year, as users built more applications with jQuery, its easy to use but powerful API led to increased adoption. The open development process also engaged users and helped the project grow.
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1. Open Source Process:
jQuery
John Resig
http://ejohn.org/ - http://twitter.com/jeresig
2. jQuery
✦ A JavaScript library designed to hide
painful cross-browser compatibility issues
while presenting a solid, usable, API.
3. Simple API
✦ $(“div > span”).addClass(“foo”);
✦ “Find some elements”
✦ “Do something with them”
✦ Makes complex manipulation of web pages
simple
4. Points of Concern
✦ Primary issues:
✦ Quality of API
✦ Quality of browser-issue-hiding
✦ Other issues:
✦ Speed, community, licensing,
development team, openness, test
coverage, API documentation, tutorials,
books, demos
5. Space
✦ Highly competitive space
✦ Released Jan. 2006 - already a dominant
player: Prototype JavaScript Library
✦ (Bundled with Ruby on Rails, had some
nice coattail growth.)
✦ Other libraries: Dojo, Yahoo UI,
MooTools
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8. Things That Are Important
✦ Technical
✦ API Design
(Usability, documentation)
✦ Code Quality
(Licensing, openness, test coverage)
✦ Non-technical
✦ Community
(Resources, responsiveness)
✦ Learning Aides
(Tutorials, books, demos)
9. What it all boils down to...
✦ How quickly can you get your user hooked
- and are you giving them room, and the
resources, to grow?
✦ Put yourself in your user’s shoes.
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11. Attrition
Failure at any step costs your project another user.
Your project is your own worst enemy.
12. The First Day
“After spending less than 3 hours reading blog posts
and perusing the documentation I was able to do a
lot more in a lot less time then ever before. The huge
community and neatly organized jQuery plugins
make me feel like a sucker for not having jQuery for
my pet-project.”
http://aleembawany.com/2009/01/16/switching-from-prototype-to-jquery/
13. Homepage
✦ Set a good first impression
✦ Answer the questions:
✦ What is this?
✦ What can it do for me?
✦ Where can I go to learn more?
16. Download
✦ Make it super-easy, remove any barriers
✦ (We link straight to the source, no .zip)
17. Licensing
✦ Not a concern for some of people
✦ A huge concern for a lot of corporate users
✦ Use the most-open license possible
✦ Fewest number of restrictions gives you
the largest possible market
✦ We use the MIT license for jQuery
✦ “Leave my name on the source file”
18. Try the Tutorial
✦ ...and subsequent Experimentation
✦ All about code quality
✦ For JavaScript libraries: Make sure your
code is seamless across browsers
✦ For desktop apps: Is it truly cross-
platform? Are there dependencies?
✦ The user should never be forced to ask for
help in order to get started
✦ Asking for help “getting started” is a
failure case on your end
19. Simplicity
✦ Simple APIs are king
✦ Users understand quicker
✦ Get started faster
✦ Become advanced quicker
20. The First Month
“Alright I am now really really into jQuery. I used to
hate javascript. WHAT HAS HAPPENED HERE?
Javascript people, speak to me.”
http://twitter.com/_ralph/status/1123503553
21. Community Resources
✦ Provide places for users to ask questions
✦ jQuery:
✦ jQuery Forum
✦ IRC Channel
✦ External:
✦ StackOverflow.com
✦ Twitter
✦ Blogs
22. Monitor Your Community
✦ Make sure that everyone is getting the
help that they need
✦ We run an Evangelism Team
“Developer Relations”
✦ Track all of the services they use
✦ Forum - Subscribe to the forums
✦ IRC - Sit in the IRC channel
✦ Blogs - Use Technorati and Google Blog
Search
✦ Twitter - Use Twitter Search
24. Service
✦ Today Mike Alsup and Michael Geary are
part of the jQuery team
25. Twitter Tracking
✦ Track people talking about the code:
✦ http://search.twitter.com/
✦ Look for people having trouble, asking
questions
26. Answer Questions
✦ It takes a lot of time, but sometimes it’s
really worth it
✦ You never know who could be having
trouble
27. Follow-up With Large Users
✦ Maintain a list of contacts with your large
users
✦ Ping them every once in a while
✦ Make sure that they’re having a good
experience
✦ They frequently forget to file bugs - make
sure that happens
28. API Documentation
✦ jQuery had API docs from the start (2006)
✦ Two other major libraries: Dojo, Prototype
didn’t have any until 2007+
✦ Clarity and usability of documentation is
huge
31. Learn More
✦ Tutorials and Books
✦ Tutorials are short and drive home a point
or single topic
✦ “Books” are more holistic and lead the
reader from start to finish
34. API Buy-in
✦ Once users start using an API for an
application they generally stick with it
✦ Every new application is an opportunity to
snag, or lose, a user
✦ All boils down to attrition: Did your user
have a good experience building the first
application?
36. Open Process
✦ Open Source is easy
(just release the code
and be done with it)
✦ Open Process is hard
(open source control,
easy bug tracking)
✦ A good process helps
users learn
37. Core Development Process
✦ Weekly, public, team meetings
✦ Defined release dates and schedule
✦ Frequent discussion in #jquery-dev (IRC)
✦ Active participation of the committers
and the bug triage team
39. Bug Triage Team
✦ Responsible for processing all the bugs in
the bug tracker
✦ Make sure test cases are filed
✦ Work through pulls in the Github pull
request queue
✦ Make sure the test suite is passing
41. Roadmap Decisions
✦ Put up a public form for people to submit
possible feature suggestions
✦ The team works through all the feature
suggestions and creates a list
✦ All of this is done in a publicly and
discussed in a public meeting
43. Extensibility
✦ Your API isn’t perfect -
it can’t include everything
for everyone
✦ Give users the ability to
add their own functionality
✦ jQuery has a healthy plugin
community with hundreds
of plugins.
✦ Gives jQuery a huge leg up
on other libraries.
44. Complex Applications
✦ Users will attempt to build increasingly
complex applications
✦ Need to be there to help, otherwise they’ll
leave for something else
✦ jQuery UI - A set of complex User
Interface components.
46. Contributions
✦ How does a user become a contributor?
✦ Encouragement is the biggest factor
✦ Encourage users to submit bug reports
✦ Encourage them to build test cases
✦ Encourage them to submit patches
✦ Praise them when something good is done.
✦ Communication is a huge factor here,
“dead” bugs or mailing list threads cripple
participation.
47. Overview
✦ Help your users at every step of the way
✦ Track them and help the stragglers
✦ Help them grow and flourish
✦ Questions?
✦ jeresig@gmail.com
✦ http://ejohn.org/
✦ http://twitter.com/jeresig