taking over open source projects @ gogaruco 2014
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Do you maintain a project you didn't start? Presented at GoGaRuCo 2014 in San Francisco.TRANSCRIPT
Daniel Doubrovkine @dblockdotorg
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Taking OverSomeone Else’s Open Source Projects
All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any
resemblance to real persons, living, dead or imprisoned, is
purely coincidental.
"When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent
successor.”!!
- “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”, Eric S. Raymond
I (we) need it.
No
Nobody wants to be in charge.
Step up.
Get in touch.
People are human.
Fork it.
Own it.
.com !.io
Real work begins.
Organize it.
Recruit the hopeless.
Make a release.
Pickup everything.
Create workflow.
A reputation of caring.
Create owners.
Ignore chickens.
Always make progress.
“We have more source code than we need.”