Power of Communities, Stephane Ducasse, ESUG 2010, Barcelona.

1. Powerful communities
Stéphane Ducasse

2. Expectations
Patterns and anti patterns

3. What can we expect?

4. A lot!

5. Look at Seaside,
wikipedia

6. Sharing is positive energy

7. Participating is rewarding
and fun

8. When is the last time you
freely learn something for
free?

9. Some observations

10. Communication is key
Be transparent
No private emails

11. Really alone?

12. More

13. A lot more

14. Feature X does not work
You turn around during weeks
You ramble...
But may be this is just that feature X is not the way you
think it is

15. Solution: Communicate
Ask/report nicely
May be this is real problem?
May be you were wrong?
But ask/report and you will know

16. Mails

17. Mailing-lists auto saturate
Too many mails kills
communication

18. Write **short** mails

19. Don’t break a thread!
One thread one topic

20. Is that mail any “useful”?
fun is allowed :)

21. Try to answer to the point
and not aside :)

22. There is no such a thing as
“I want that”, “the maintainer
of that package should do
that”

23. Report a bug
which system
which version
can we reproduce it
get a unit test

24. Companies!?
If you rely on a software system how do you expect it
to magically get better?

25. Wishful thinking or acting
Participate to bounty
Participate by giving some of your time

26. Most of the fixes are trivial
85% of bugs are trivial
Focus on them!

27. Don’t keep your fixes on
your harddisc!

28. Join this is fun!