Maintaining a large OSS project: war stories

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Spree maintainer reports concrete changes and results: issue count jumps from 690 to about 2,630 after joining and February 2013 traffic spikes, commits go from 4,382 pre-join to ~4,016 afterward; the team renamed most files deliberately, extracts the authentication component ripped into a gem, replaces inconsistent JSON with a versioned API using ransack kaminari and ravel, adds currency configuration and multi‑currency pricing, introduces a checkout‑flow DSL, redesigns admin, and cuts bad releases by adopting TeamCity replacing Travis for CI.

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2. 6:06boxfirepress "I'm having the same error and restarting heroku or resetting the database have not fixed the problem."
3. 6:52boxfirepress "What part of same problem was difficult to understand?"
4. 7:07Please don't expect help if you're going to be passive aggressive with
5. 25:12SPREE DEVELOPER GUIDES
6. 25:52Continuous Integration

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