My First Year of Pull Requests
summary
Argues that GitHub actually lowers barriers — easy forking, issues, and pull requests — and that projects mirror repositories and build integration so a pull request can be turned into a Gerrit patch set, though automation is incomplete. Presents numbers: about half of active GitHub users make fewer than five commits per month and 85% of code has no license. Calls the common result drive‑by contributors, notes maintainer burden, recommends CONTRIBUTING files and explicit CLAs and clearer review signals.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 0:42Topics
- 2:23Takeaways
- 2:50Github Enables OSS
- 4:27A Short History of Open Source
- 4:57Privileges and Democratizing 05
- 6:12Embarrassment
- 7:47Highs
- 10:44Widening the Funnel
- 11:49Rise of the Small Contributor
- 12:33Building Community
- 14:19Managing Occasional Contributors
- 22:21Conclusion
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