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I just pushed an effort at Linode to open source our new manager website: https://github.com/Linode/manager https://github.com/Linode/manager I think it will a
by Sir_Cmpwn 10y ago
I just pushed an effort at Linode to open source our new manager website: https://github.com/Linode/manager https://github.com/Linode/manager
I think it will avoid these pitfalls. It is a learning resource because I hope that someone will read it instead of spending the weeks we had to spend figuring out how to set up the ideal frontend web project in 2016. I also hope that it'll get some exposure among those millions of open source JavaScript projects by simply inheriting our customerbase.
Unfortunately, though, I don't realistically see many external contributions coming into the manager. It hits all of the points that make it easy to contribute (it's not my first open source project by a wide margin), but I would be surprised to see many contributions despite that.
- StavrosK 10y ago> It hits all of the points that make it easy to contribute Where's the documentation? > Reporting Bugs > Don't. Hmm...
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y agoYeah, fair. It's still early in development so those resources haven't been made available.
- StavrosK 10y agoFair enough, I just wanted to point out documentation is pretty much the first and most important thing you need to do if you want someone to contribute to an open repository, so I don't think you can say it "hits all the points" without having any docs available.
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y agoWell, I do see significant amounts of contributors working on several of my personal open source projects, and I only generally make end user docs available. A well organized codebase doesn't always need much explanation.