Conversations with the hackers, leaders, and innovators of the software world. Hosts Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo face their imposter syndrome so you don’t have to. Expect in-depth interviews with the best and brightest in software engineering, open source, and leadership. This is a polyglot podcast. All programming languages, platforms, and communities are welcome. Open source moves fast. Keep up.
First-time contributors and maintainer balance
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 – Twitter, GitHub, Website
- Adam Stacoviak – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
- Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub
Notes and Links
- 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.
