From Storming to Performing: Growing Your Project's Contributor Experience
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021 · on Thursday, 2021-10-14· at 16:30· 411 Theater + Online·
summary
Practical checklist for growing an open source project: use GitHub Pages or Netlify for a quick website, keep a current quick-start and maintainer guide, adopt a Code of Conduct and simple governance on day one, split docs into a separate repo, and use labels plus a regular triage cycle to prevent backlog. They add triage maintainer roles to reduce burnout, create a formal emeritus maintainer status for graceful exits, run contributor summits to seed a maintainer pipeline, and report these steps materially improve retention and throughput.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:40Forming Phase
- 6:27Storming Phase
- 11:18Norming Phase
- 15:30Performing Phase
- 21:25Conclusion
- 26:15Triage Maintainers
- 27:30Starting a New Project
- 30:30Code of Conduct
- 32:00Making Your Community Inclusive
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