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Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
Authors: Jared Watts, Muvaffak Onuş
2023-04-19
In this session, the Crossplane maintainer team be focusing on a few exciting hands-on activities together - we will walk through a contributor enablement session to help you get a development environment set up and ready to contribute to the project, and we will also walk through using some of the latest features in Crossplane to expedite your adoption of them, as well as discuss your important feedback to help continue maturing them.This Contribfest session is designed to provide projects with the space and resources to tackle outstanding technical debt, security issues, or outstanding impactful feature requests. They are intended to provide a place for maintainers to meet contributors and potential contributors and work together on solving a problem.
Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2023
Authors: Dawn Foster
2023-04-19
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The talk discusses ways to build a sustainable contributor base for CNCF projects and prevent maintainer burnout.
- Maintaining an open source project is hard work and can lead to maintainer burnout.
- Proactive and specific requests for help can motivate contributors.
- Moving people into Emeritus roles can recognize their hard work and allow them to step away from day-to-day responsibilities.
- Developing a sustainable contributor growth strategy involves onboarding new contributors, promoting them into leadership positions, and getting help with different types of contributions.
- Breaking out of the vicious cycle of fewer contributors and less time for onboarding requires strategic thinking about where to start.
- The CNCF has resources and templates available to help build a sustainable contributor base.
- The talk encourages carving out one hour a week to improve onboarding docs, contribution guides, project governance, or helping others learn something new.
Conference: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2021
Authors: Josh Berkus, Catherine Paganini
2021-10-14
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Tips for keeping contributors motivated and encouraged to contribute to a project
- Clearly communicate goals and expectations to contributors
- Minimize steps and use tools to reduce difficulty of contributing
- Create a welcoming community and make one-on-one connections with contributors
- Develop recognition programs and offer mentoring and swag to contributors
- Formal governance and contributor rules can lower risk and difficulty of contributing