Email marketing done the open source way
summary
phpList is a 20-year-old AGPLv3 email platform that moves from unpredictable feature-based releases to a monthly release cycle with a release candidate on the 5th and final release on the 11th, adding an automatic updater so nontechnical users avoid upgrade breakage. Development uses Mantis, Discourse, Nextcloud and Jitsi with 10-minute standups; after 17 months the project reports being "17 times more updated," version 3.5.0 out now, and at least one community PR per release.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:23Who am I
- 1:19Dashboard
- 1:37Why this session
- 2:04Three different projects
- 2:33Why it was considered a different development approach
- 3:04The problem we realized two years ago
- 3:50The testing phase
- 4:04The agile approach
- 4:50Challenges
- 5:16Agile approach
- 5:41Meeting deadlines
- 6:07Automatic updater
- 6:35Montes
- 7:31Challenges faced
- 8:16Where we stand
- 9:24Thank you
- 9:55How did you become the community manager
- 12:41Was there any challenging managing the community
- 14:06How to be a community manager
- 18:04Join the community
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