Rebooting Open Source at
summary
Rebooted an open source portfolio with concrete tooling and measurable results: GitHub API + Hack scripts crawl every repo, data lands in MySQL-backed time series and Argus dashboards and triggers alerts; a CLA bot and linter automate contributor flows and safety checks; every repo gets a named owner, metrics (35 tracked) and lifecycle rules. Outcomes: 65 projects launched in six months, followers and forks roughly double, average issue/pull-request age drops to months, and hits like Pop: 4,000 followers day one validate the approach.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:55Open Source at Facebook
- 3:00Open Source is Dorm Room Friendly
- 3:36Scaling Open Source
- 4:51Open Source and Hacker Culture
- 6:53Benefits of Open Source
- 8:56Dont Create Internal Force
- 9:23Use Your Own Open Source
- 10:31Project Ownership
- 12:56GitHub
- 13:27Database
- 17:00Metrics
- 18:14Tools
- 18:31Open Source Page
- 20:04Behind the Scenes
- 20:50Establish Ownership
- 22:37Launching a project
- 23:00Checklist
- 24:43Licensing
- 25:28Launching projects
- 26:44Facebook QA
- 27:49Launching Open Source
- 29:23Practice makes perfect
- 30:52iOS Dev Weekly
- 31:13Origami
- 31:35Community Interaction
- 32:28External Commits
- 32:59Leave Bread Crumbs
- 35:23New projects
- 36:12Progress metrics
- 37:09Be open connected
- 37:34Questions
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