Being Your Best Asset and Not Your Worst Enemy
summary
Four concrete rules guide project decisions: contributors are a privilege, no is a perfectly acceptable answer, assign responsibility, and communicate constantly. Uses Git, public forks, frequent phone/video calls, IRC and screen sharing to reduce friction. Metrics: about 200 committers, 90% first enter by fixing specs, one volunteer grows to 446 commits. Practices that matter: accept small patches to grant commit rights, prefer minimal premature process, give easy wins, and treat forks as opportunities for collaboration rather than threats.
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chapters (45)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:36Contributors are privileged
- 2:20Communication
- 3:25Be Nice
- 4:01First Case Study
- 4:37Take a Step Back
- 5:18Have a Conversation
- 6:19Fork for the Right Reasons
- 6:33The Danger of Forks
- 7:05Forking in Public
- 8:38The Friend of the Fork
- 9:37Process
- 10:37Avoid complicated workflow
- 10:55Premature process
- 11:35Controlling chaos
- 11:52This is just you
- 12:15New dependencies
- 12:47Remember the laws
- 13:11Lets have a conversation
- 13:21How can you get people to contribute
- 14:38My way is superior
- 14:56No hard feelings
- 15:16Best case scenario
- 15:35Weve had this exact problem
- 16:18Bring in other people
- 17:40Easy wins best
- 18:14Simple goals
- 18:30Run this command
- 19:26You work on a spec first
- 19:45Dirkyunhee
- 19:57First Commit
- 21:03Gateway Drug
- 21:46Core Team
- 22:05Trust
- 22:53Commit Rights
- 23:21Responsibility is Greater Than Privilege
- 24:21There Must Be Just Complete Chaos
- 24:39Responsibility
- 25:50Conflict
- 26:52Remember These Laws
- 27:11You Dont Want That Right Now
- 27:56Its A Thing For People
- 28:19They Want To Be Part
- 28:42Respect
- 29:06Marketing
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