How to contribute to osm.org
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A major communities feature for osm.org is nearly complete after 2–3 years of work: it adds a top-level navigation item for spatial and interest communities, was split into multiple stages, and one stage went from ~100 commits to being requested as ten focused commits for easier review. The site runs on Ruby on Rails with plain Postgres (no PostGIS), development uses Docker compose, tests and linting are required, and contributions must use minitest and pass automated and security checks before deployment to the dev site for review.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Introduction to OSM project
- 1:00Core team dynamics
- 2:25Getting started and planning
- 3:31Development environment and testing
- 5:31Submission and collaboration
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