2024-02-14

Keep your bug tracker unified

When your bug tracking is scattered across different platforms, you make it harder for your users to file reports.

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2024-02-07

Fork yes: embrace forks of your project

If you’ve done what you can to make your community a great place to contribute, then you can feel free to embrace any forks that happen.

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2024-01-31

Companies: fund work that isn’t new development

Failing to invest in your upstream projects presents a large business risk. Communities, like gardens, are more productive when tended to.

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2024-01-24

Don’t try to be too formal in policy writing

Don’t emulate legal language when writing policies for your community. The simpler the language, the easier everyone will understand.

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2024-01-17

Open source trends for 2024

With 2024 here, I take a look at a few trends I see in open source this year.

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2023-12-27

Open source leadership resolutions for 2024

If you’re looking for some inspiration for your new year’s resolutions, here’s what I’m thinking about for 2024.

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2023-12-20

How to get started in project management

Do you want to get started in project management but you’re not sure how? Open source projects have plenty of opportunity to jump in & help.

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2023-12-13

Focus release criteria on user-visible behavior

Focusing on user-visible behavior allows you distinguish between what you should fix and what you must fix.

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2023-12-06

Understand your community’s scope

It’s hard to say “we want to be for everyone” and continue on to “who is also interested in this work.”

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2023-11-29

It’s okay for your project to end

Open source projects don’t last forever, and that’s okay. The end of a project can be a sign of success, or at least partial success.

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