It´s Easy! Contributing to Open Source
summary
Practical roadmap for first contributions with concrete case studies on Eclipse MicroProfile and Apache TomEE showing where novices actually fit tasks like docs, tests, CI and workshops. Projects use GitHub Actions and continuous integration, tracked via Maven Git JIRA workflows. Apache hosts 300+ projects, one contributor ports 90% of examples to Portuguese, a community hack day produces a couple of pull requests, and Jakarta EE 9 release targets end of year so many small fixes and docs land and work.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 3:44Why Should I Be Involved in Open Source
- 11:51Choose a License
- 17:12Community Culture
- 18:47Documentation
- 22:46The Difference between User and Contributors
- 23:29How Can You Know if the Project Is Really Healthy within the Apache Foundation
- 24:13Tooling
- 24:52Technical Prerequisites
- 30:22Eclipse Foundation
- 31:16How Are Committers Elected Is by Merit
- 31:30How Decisions Are Made
- 32:27Technical Prerequisites
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