Scaling Open Source Communities

Explore the evolution and growth of open source projects in this 28-minute conference talk from WeAreDevelopers Conference 2017. Delve into common challenges faced by large-scale open source initiatives and discover effective solutions through automation, community empowerment, and project extensibility. Learn about the various stages of open source development, human factors influencing project momentum, and strategies for managing feature requests, issues, and pull requests. Gain insights on implementing bots, improving error messages, and streamlining reporting and troubleshooting processes. Understand the importance of maintaining issue momentum, utilizing GitHub's issue lifecycle, and implementing tools like Danger. Examine project steering techniques, the significance of a Code of Conduct, and the benefits of keeping codebases simple. Discover when to say no to feature requests and how to implement a plugin system for greater flexibility. Conclude with a Q&A session to address specific concerns and further explore open source community scaling.