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How people build software

HappinessDeveloping the developers most important skill

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♥Bas PetersSolutions EngineerGitHub

How people build software

HappinessNo mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

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Open Source DevelopmentThe development of open source software involves bringing a widely distributed group of people together to work on complex problems while primarily communicating online.

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Open Source DevelopmentThe development of open source software involves bringing a widely distributed group of people together to work on complex problems while primarily communicating online.

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Open source projects have constraints

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GEOGRAPHY TIMEZONE CULTURE

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Open source projects have constraints

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Open source principles

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TRANSPARENCYPARTICIPATIONCOLLABORATION

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The medium and the message are transparent

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Minimizing friction enables participation

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DOCUMENTATIONREADME.md

CONTRIBUTING.md

PULL REQUESTSMake it easy to

propose changes

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�Minimizing friction - Documentation

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�Minimizing friction - Pull Requests

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�Minimizing friction - Pull Requests

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Experimentation Without RiskBranch — Question, Hypothesis, Experiment, Analyze, Conclude

Pull Request — Gather feedback from peers and integrate with 3rd party products to perform automation for quality of code, build status, and deployment

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Writing a Pull Request

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• Include the purpose of this Pull Request• Why the work is taking place• Be explicit about what feedback you want• Be explicit about when you want feedback• @mention individuals that you want to involve in the discussion• Remember that anyone in the company could be reading this Pull Request

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Providing feedback

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• Familiarize yourself with the context of the issue and why this Pull Request exists

• Explain your reasons why code should be changed• Offer ways to simplify or improve code• Aim to develop professional skills, group knowledge and product quality, through group critique.

• Be humble, use positive language and use emoji to clarify tone 👍 ✨ ✨

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Responding to feedback

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• Consider leading with an expression of appreciation• Ask for clarification, offer clarification, explain the decisions you made

• Try to respond to every comment• Link to any follow up commits or Pull Requests• Sometimes it can help to talk face-to-face

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�Enabling participation

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�Enabling participation

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�Minimizing friction - Automation

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�Apple Swift - Expanding Commit Access

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�Minimizing friction - Automation

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How people build software

�Code deploys: bring operations to the developer

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How people build software

�Deploy master on merge

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How people build software

�Use branch based deployments

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How people build software

�Deployment status

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�Haystack exception tracking

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�Code refactoring with Scientist

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�Code refactoring with Scientist

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Put everyone in one spot with chat…

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• Team rooms• Region based rooms• Social rooms• Private chat• Ops rooms

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�… and bring your tools into your conversations

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�Meet Hubot

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�Hubot deploy example

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Steps to create happy developers

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• Ensure quality• Implement rigorous testing and build• Make deploys boring and predictable• Require documentation in the

repositories• Require mature and respectful

behavior

• Improve collaboration • Let developers share their work• Require public and focused code

reviews• Give employees the confidence to

contribute code• Put everyone in one spot with chat• Share your experiences

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