Episode 28: Open Source and Companies with Nell Shamrell-Harrington

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Open Source and Companies with Nell Shamrell-Harrington

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Guest

Nell Shamrell-Harrington: Senior Software Development Engineer at Chef, CTO of Operation Code. nellshamrell.com

Summary

What's it like to run an Open Source project as part of your day job? How does open source change when it's backed by a company? Why is it useful for a company to run open source projects? Nell Shamrell-Harrington, who runs the Habitat project for Chef is on the show to talk about open source contributing and maintenance. You'll come away with some ways to be a better contributor and maintainer.

Notes

01:57 - Nell’s History Working on Open Source

• gibbon

03:37 - Open Source Governance

• The FreeBSD Project

07:07 - Chef, Having Community Discussions, and Handling RFCs and Contributions

• Chef Compliance
• Habitat

13:48 - Being Involved in DevProgress and Campaign Volunteering as a Developer

20:57 - Closed Source vs Open Source Development

25:48 - Advice for Getting Started in Open Source and Emphasis on Defined Codes of Conduct

27:44 - Accepting & Reviewing Pull Requests and Being Clear on What Tools Are For and Looking For in Contributions

32:29 - Common Mistakes Among Contributors and Maintainers

• RailsConf 2017: Teaching RSpec to Play nice with Rails by Sam Phippen

34:55 - Keeping Open Source Projects Sustainable

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Special Guest: Nell Shamrell-Harrington.