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Tending Your Open Source Garden, v2

Tending Your Open Source Garden, v2

Brandon Keepers
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October 23, 2014
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  1. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cress_keyboard-3_sprouting_other_side.jpg
    Garden
    @BKEEPERS
    TENDING YOUR OPEN SOURCE
    !

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  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_gnome_liberationists
    "bkeepers

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  3. Gardening
    Software
    Open Source

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  4. Gardening

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  5. I ♥ ⚘

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  6. I ♥ ⚘

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  7. I ♥ ⚘

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  8. G A R D E N V 3 . 0

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  9. growing good food
    &
    eating good food

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  11. Share the harvest

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  12. an exercise in resource allocation

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  17. GARDENS CREATE COMMUNITY

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  18. Software
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/91663396@N00/7080354723

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  19. http://vimeo.com/43628932
    I like software
    B E C A U S E
    I like gardening

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  20. http://vimeo.com/43628932
    I like software
    B E C A U S E
    I like gardening

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  21. SOFTWARE CREATES COMMUNITY

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  22. https://www.flickr.com/photos/antoinettevanderieth/8753016923

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  23. Open Source
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/antoinettevanderieth/8753016923

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  24. I’m not talking about farming…
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/messycupcakes/7722551044/

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  25. …or land management.
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/47096398@N08/7462466876

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  26. Steve Klabnik
    http://words.steveklabnik.com/how-to-be-an-open-source-gardener

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  27. I’m talking about gardening

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  28. What can GARDENING
    teach us about OPEN SOURCE?
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/nateswartphoto/5623220460

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  29. CONSISTENCY
    & DILIGENCE

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  30. Follow your own contribution guidelines.

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  31. Invite people in.

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  33. Be hospitable.

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  34. Give it time.
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/onegiantleap/4124211492

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  36. Only add features that
    you want to maintain.

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  37. B E W A R E O F P E S T S
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/eldave/3332622539

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  47. +1

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  48. +1

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  49. +1

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  51. Tests guard against erosion.

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  52. Continuous integration gives contributors confidence.

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  53. Remove features that you
    don’t want to maintain.

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  54. dotenv-deployment

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  55. Provide plugin APIs

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  57. Use semantic versioning
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimfischer/8384524415
    1.2.6
    minor patch
    major
    semver.org

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  58. Use semantic versioning
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimfischer/8384524415
    1.2.6
    minor patch
    major
    }
    backwards-compatibile bug fixes
    semver.org

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  59. Use semantic versioning
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimfischer/8384524415
    1.2.6
    minor patch
    major
    }
    backwards-compatible functionality
    semver.org

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  60. Use semantic versioning
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimfischer/8384524415
    1.2.6
    minor patch
    major
    }
    incompatible API changes
    semver.org

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  61. Deprecate features in
    minor versions, remove
    them in major versions
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimfischer/8384524415

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  62. 1.x.x
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/jimfischer/8384524415
    if using_deprecated_feature?
    warn "[DEPRECATION] This feature has been " +
    "deprecated and will be removed in 2.0.",
    caller[0]
    # deprecated functionality here
    end

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  63. Keep a changelog.
    http://bit.ly/1mfVB3d

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  64. Changelog.md
    http://bit.ly/1mfVB3d

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  65. Give it away when it
    stops being fun.

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  66. …unless you still
    depend on it.

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  69. LET IT DIE
    when it stops producing

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  73. learn from your
    MISTAKES

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  74. Thank You
    " bkeepers

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