Managing a multilingual open source community
summary
TiDB is a NewSQL project with ~440 contributors in the TiDB repo and over 1,000 across the ecosystem, organized into 21 working groups and SIGs with PMCs, maintainers and contributor roles. Community tooling includes RFCs, an English code style, Slack/WeChat and syndication to Hacker News. Programs that grow contributors are a yearly October hackathon, multi-month usability and performance challenges, a talent plan learning pathway, and a community book in 48 hours effort that produced 421 commits and ~200 PRs.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction to multilingual OSS
- 1:04Pincap and TiDB ecosystem overview
- 3:57Three pillars of TiDB community
- 8:18Governance roles and structure
- 16:16Communication in open source
- 24:12Dancing in shackles explained
- 31:38Q&A session
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