such an awesome story!
I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
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Re: I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
#12I did something similar with a project I lost interest in several years ago ( https://github.com/dbfit/dbfit - table-oriented database unit testing). Just gave over commit rights, and there's a whole bunch of people writing code for it and maintaining it now, still going strong. I occasionally look at the github repo, and always end up amazed how much it's moved on.
We use DbFit every day at our shop. It's really changed how we work (as DB developers). Was funny that I thought of this project right after reading this article, and how I should probably try and contribute, then I see this in the comments. :)
Thanks!
Re: I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
#13> I don’t recall the author now, but the gist of the argument made was that we’re too protective of our code - if you give someone responsibility, show that you trust them, more often than not, your intuition about people abusing their freedom is way off. Maybe it was some of Pieter Hintjens writing and/or the C4 process: * https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:42/C4/ * http://hintjens.com/blog:112 * http://hintjens.com/blog:1…
I'd guess it was this: http://felixge.de/2013/03/11/the-pull-request-hack.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5357417
Was going to suggest the same thing :) I haven't had the sort of success that the OP did, but that PR Hack post def inspired my way of operating! Yay Felix
Re: I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
#14Ha, Same thing happened to me with the SAME contributor!! Benjamin Bach is an awesome dude. He helped me maintain django-dbbackup for quite some time then we found a third contributor, Anthony Monthe, who is also very interested in the project and I would say owns it now. It's been maintained by those two for quite some time now. I wish there was a way for me to buy them both a bunch of rounds of beer. :D
Re: I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
#15Ha, Same thing happened to me with the SAME contributor!! Benjamin Bach is an awesome dude. He helped me maintain django-dbbackup for quite some time then we found a third contributor, Anthony Monthe, who is also very interested in the project and I would say owns it now. It's been maintained by those two for quite some time now. I wish there was a way for me to buy them both a bunch of rounds of beer. :D
Use Bitcoin or Venmo. Sounds like they've been great stewards.
Re: I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
#16The Jazzband is a Python-focused group based around similar ideas: People can transfer their projects to the group, and anyone in the group can commit stuff and make releases.
Re: I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
#17I did this for a (not very popular) Eclipse IDE autocomplete set for a certain Lua-based game engine.
I updated to 0.9.2d and forgot about it (stopped using the engine), and someone came in with a PR for 0.10.0. I made a couple of notes on the PR, and gave the guy commit access.
He cleaned it up, and has been rebuilding occasionally when new minor versions of the API definitions come in.
The vast majority of people are pretty nice. They aren't assholes. They're just people who have the same issues you had to build the project in the first place, and want to help.
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#18I had submitted several PRs to a Zip streaming library. The author gave me direct commit access after this. I've helped maintain it ever since. I think it can really work out in some cases.
Re: I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
#19Thank you for sharing this is awesome!
Re: I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know
#20I shared mod privileges with somebody on reddit and my subreddit was closed for excessive spam within days -- I learned my lesson!