Sprinting For Beginners
summary
Explains how to start and run a community sprint with concrete steps: find the venue, label your table, add the project to the wiki, and welcome newcomers; practical workflows like create a branch for every change, use GitHub pull requests, write or add unit tests, and use Travis on a fork to catch breakage; lightweight coordination with Trello or Lumio, pre-classifying beginner tasks and induction scripts, goals (bug fixes, tests, docs or community building), and tactics for coaching and measuring progress.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Why Sprinting
- 1:10What is Sprinting
- 2:32How to Start
- 3:22Things to Know
- 4:40Meeting People
- 6:02How to Run a Sprint
- 12:30Introducing Sprints
- 13:20Introducing Russell
- 14:44Introducing Robert Collins
- 15:26Introducing Tyson
- 16:25Introducing Josh
- 17:18Introducing Tim
- 18:09Final remarks
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