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Software at Scale 35 - Maintaining Git with Johannes Schindelin
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Johannes Schindelin is the maintainer (BDFL) of Git for Windows.
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Git is a fundamental piece of the software community, and we get to learn the history and inner workings of the project in this episode. Maintaining a widely-used open source project involves a ton of expected complexity around handling bug reports, deprecations, and inclusive culture, but also requires management of inter-personal relationships, ease of contribution, and other aspects that are fascinating to learn about.
Highlights
00:06 - How did Johannes end up as the maintainer of Git for Windows?
06:30 - The Git community in the early days. Fun fact: Git used to be called `dircache`
08:30 - How many downloads does Git for Windows get today?
10:15 - Why does Git for Windows a separate project? Why not make improvements to Git itself?
24:00 - How do you deprecate functionality when there are millions of users of your product and you have no telemetry?
30:00 - What does being the BDFL of a project mean? What does Johannes day-to-day look like?
33:00 - What is GitGitGadget? How does it make contributions easier?
41:00 - How do foster an inclusive community of an open-source project?
50:00 - What’s next for Git?
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.softwareatscale.dev
59 episodes
Manage episode 305030939 series 2899471
Johannes Schindelin is the maintainer (BDFL) of Git for Windows.
Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts
Git is a fundamental piece of the software community, and we get to learn the history and inner workings of the project in this episode. Maintaining a widely-used open source project involves a ton of expected complexity around handling bug reports, deprecations, and inclusive culture, but also requires management of inter-personal relationships, ease of contribution, and other aspects that are fascinating to learn about.
Highlights
00:06 - How did Johannes end up as the maintainer of Git for Windows?
06:30 - The Git community in the early days. Fun fact: Git used to be called `dircache`
08:30 - How many downloads does Git for Windows get today?
10:15 - Why does Git for Windows a separate project? Why not make improvements to Git itself?
24:00 - How do you deprecate functionality when there are millions of users of your product and you have no telemetry?
30:00 - What does being the BDFL of a project mean? What does Johannes day-to-day look like?
33:00 - What is GitGitGadget? How does it make contributions easier?
41:00 - How do foster an inclusive community of an open-source project?
50:00 - What’s next for Git?
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.softwareatscale.dev
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