Open Source & Swift
summary
Open sourcing often starts by porting or extracting an internal utility — for example PhoneNumberKit is a Swift port of Google's libphonenumber — and succeeds when it gains both users and contributors. Practical steps include choosing a license (MIT/Apache/GPL), generating docs with Jazzy, publishing via CocoaPods, using semantic versioning (agvtool in Xcode), shipping a concise README and example app, promoting on Medium/Reddit/newsletters, and turning first PR authors into maintainers to avoid abandonment.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:48Why Open Source
- 6:37Myths about Open Source
- 8:33What if you dont have an itch
- 9:58How to opensource
- 12:44What developers care about
- 15:25Example apps
- 16:34Documentation
- 17:56Semantic Versioning
- 18:58Launch
- 19:49Media
- 20:20What happens next
- 21:30Building a community
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