Building Up the Electron Project: Team and Community Engineering
summary
Electron starts as Atom Shell spun out of Atom after VS Code exposes its reuse and renaming; it grows from a one-person dependency with a bus factor of one into a 1.0 project moved to its own org. Work focuses on concrete deliverables: a Jekyll-hosted docs site with each release tarball containing versioned docs, a minimal electron Quick Start repo, and an API demos app whose sample code is the running app; initial resourcing is literally 40 hours a week of advocacy and roadmapping.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 1:28Desktop Applications
- 6:35Electron is not important.
- 8:05First Things First
- 8:42Documentation
- 8:58Single Source of Truth
- 14:21Electron Quick Start
- 15:23Developers, Developers, Developers
- 17:07Sample Code is the Code
- 18:30Built to Open up
- 19:19Electron Community and Userland
- 21:49Community Engineering
- 22:41Electron's situation was different
- 24:37Scale Down, People Up
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