编程与软件工程words.steveklabnik.com
如何做一名开源园丁
How to be an open source gardener
2014 — 2018，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
导读
这篇博客把开源项目维护比作园艺：除了写代码，还要持续分类 issue、复现 bug、搭建测试/CI、回复和引导贡献者。作者认为这些琐碎但必要的“园丁工作”是开源贡献的重要部分，社区应正视并分担它们。
为什么经久不衰：它点出了开源维护中最容易被忽视的日常劳动，让维护者和贡献者重新理解“参与开源”的含义，因此多年后仍值得读。
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维护者大量时间花在分类 issue 和搭贡献基础设施上，并计划标记适合新手的复现任务。
完全同意。对 PouchDB 来说（欢迎园丁），我 90% 的时间都花在分类 issue 和为贡献搭建基础设施（主要是测试/CI）上。有时每隔几天、至少每周我会过一遍所有 issue，想办法关闭旧 issue；很大一部分 bug 需要有人调查并写出清晰的复现步骤。读完这篇文章后，我打算专门给这类 issue 打标签，留给新贡献者。
daleharvey查看英文原文
1000 times yes For PouchDB (gardeners welcome - https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb), 90% of my time is between triaging issues and setting up infrastructure for contributions (mostly working on tests / CI). Sometimes every few days, at least every week I sit and go through all the issues, try and figure out whats needed to close out the old issues, a good percentage of the bugs are ones that need someone to investigate and produce a clear set of steps to reproduce. Actually after reading I am gonna start tagging these ones specifically for new contributors. Even as someone who considers myself very reactive to bug reports etc, its very easy to let it slip (https://twitter.com/daleharvey/status/451378807006838784)
文章强调非代码贡献同样重要。
这是一篇很好的文章，哪怕只是因为它重申了代码不是帮助开源项目的唯一方式。
donutdan4114查看英文原文
This is a really good post, if only because it reiterates that code isn't the only way to help an open source project.
提出“如何退出并移交项目”的难题：无人接手，项目半死不活。
Steve，首先我很尊重你的工作。但显而易见的是，你换工作后完全从 Rails 上消失了（附提交记录链接）。换到 Rust 等方向后我也会做同样的事，因为你有别的重点。不过你提到 Rails，我觉得这是个讨论“离开花园”的机会。我有几个喜欢的项目，但离开旧工作后我被这些项目困住，没人愿意接手——我找过帮助，但都是暂时的，没人接手。你或其他人对成功放弃一个项目有什么建议吗？我似乎做不到，那些项目因为我投入太少而荒废，但我又做得刚好让别人以为我没放弃。
dsfadadsffd查看英文原文
Steve, first off I respect you a lot for the work you have done. But, the elephant in the room is that when you changed jobs, you totally fell off the map with Rails: https://github.com/rails/rails/commits/master?author=steveklabnik I would have done the same thing, getting into to Rust, etc. after the job transition, as you have other things to focus on. However, you mentioned Rails, and I think this is an opportunity to talk about "leaving the garden". I have a few projects I had enjoyed working on, but when I left the old job, I was stuck with those projects and no one wanted to take them on- I tried to find help, but it was temporary- no one has taken over. Do you or others have suggestions for successfully abandoning a project, because I can't seem to, and those projects languish with the lack of effort I put into them because it is so infrequent, but I do just enough apparently to keep others from thinking I've abandoned them.
反对盲目用模板回复旧 issue，会打击报告者。
请不要盲目照做。bug 报告者看到自己的问题被搁置几个版本、随后只收到这种模板回复，会非常沮丧（示例链接）。
teddyh查看英文原文
> Was this issue for an older version of Rails than is currently supported? If so, copy/paste an answer I wrote that asks if anyone knows if this affects a supported version of Rails. No. Please do not do this blindly. It is very discouraging for the bug reporter to see their bug being ignored for a few releases, followed by this response. Example: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2003/02/the-cadt-model/
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