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Dave Cheney 17 Feb 2019 2 min read

The open source projects that I contribute to follow a philosophy which I describe as talk, then code. I think this is generally a good way to develop software and I want to spend a little time talking about the benefits of this methodology. Avoiding hurt feelings The most important reason for discussing the change you want […]

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Dave Cheney 25 Mar 2016 3 min read

In December 2014 the Go project moved from Google Code to GitHub. Along with the move to GitHub, the Go project moved from Mercurial to Git, which necessitated a move away from Rietveld to Gerrit for code review. A healthy open source project lives and dies by its contributors. People come and people go as time, circumstance, their […]

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Dave Cheney 12 Mar 2016 2 min read

Occasionally I am asked for advice on how to get started contributing to an Open Source project. I thought it may be useful to write down my suggestions. These points were written in the context of the Go programming language, but I think this advice is applicable to the majority of modern Open Source projects. […]

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