My First Year of Pull Requests
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Open source folks are passionate about the tools they make and want others to get involved. Yet, in the past year that I've been developing software full time, I've seen a wide variety of responses from maintainers. On one hand, I've been inspired by the Travis-CI maintainer who followed up with my bug report over several weeks, on the other hand, my pull request to JDBC has lain fallow.
Description
I’m a user of open source tools and an occasional contributor via pull requests, and as a relatively new developer, it’s very scary to hit the ‘Submit Pull Request’ button on Github.
I’ll talk about:
- Why I use open source tools
- How I contribute back to the project
- My favorite experiences with maintainers
Speaking experience
I have not given this talk before, but I'm excited about this topic! I was on a panel on 'Getting involved at open source' at the SoCal Women in Computer Science.
I've given technical talks on Ruby-related topics at the Los Angeles Ruby Conference and Silicon Valley DevFest.
Speaker
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- Twitter: msfionatay
Biography
Rubyist, open source advocate, femgineer
Sessions
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- Title: My First Year of Pull Requests
- Track: Culture
- Room: B301
- Time: 2:30 – 3:15pm
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Excerpt:
Open source folks are passionate about the tools they make and want others to get involved. Yet, in the past year that I’ve been developing software full time, I’ve seen a wide variety of responses from maintainers. On one hand, I’ve been inspired by the Travis-CI maintainer who followed up with my bug report over several weeks, on the other hand, my pull request to JDBC has lain fallow.
- Speakers: Fiona Tay