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Jérôme Petazzoni

What do y'all think of non-code contributions, in particular for open source projects?

(E.g. documentation, testing, tooling, bug reproduction, advocacy ... just to list a few!)

Please boost for reach <3

(Answers edited to be shorter and show correctly on all devices.)

Anonymous poll

Poll

Not necessary
0
0%
Necessary and I wish we talked more about it
84
0%
Necessary and most folks around me know it
22
0%
0 people voted.
Voting ended 23 Aug 2023 at 0:35.
19 Aug 2023 at 0:17 | Open on hachyderm.io
21 comments
Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺

@jpetazzo They're a very important, often overlooked part of open-source. Documentation can always be improved, and often people that are new to the project have great input that very experienced users will overlook. Way too much documentation assumes prior knowledge of some sort.

19 Aug 2023 at 0:22 | Open on toot.d.sb
Pär Björklund

@jpetazzo I don't know what the third option is
19 Aug 2023 at 6:59 | Open on hachyderm.io
Jérôme Petazzoni

@Paxxi I'm sorry, I hadn't realized that!

The 3rd option should be "They're necessary and most folks around me know it".

I'll see if I can edit the text to be shorter and show in full even on mobile. 🙏🏻

20 Aug 2023 at 0:30 | Open on hachyderm.io
Jérôme Petazzoni

@Paxxi Okay I was able to edit them but that did reset the number of votes 😭 (which kind of makes sense to avoid changing the result of a poll by switching options after the poll is complete; but... I wish I had gotten a warning😅)

20 Aug 2023 at 0:38 | Open on hachyderm.io
Pär Björklund

@jpetazzo that seems like it could be improved 😀
Thank you!

20 Aug 2023 at 5:44 | Open on hachyderm.io
Andrew Hodgson

@jpetazzo I'm all in favour of it, gives people a start and makes them feel part of the comunity.

19 Aug 2023 at 13:40 | Open on social.hodgson.io
Alex Rock

@jpetazzo I've been told off several times because my contributions to open source were not code.

I consider that spending hours in public networks listening to people having questions about the framework and helping them to be contributions to open source, but it seems that certain "core maintainers" wouldn't consider it to be so.

19 Aug 2023 at 16:17 | Open on mastodon.social
Mark Stosberg

@jpetazzo FYI, at least some mobile apps are truncating the poll options.
19 Aug 2023 at 16:27 | Open on urbanists.social
Jérôme Petazzoni

@markstos Thanks for letting me know! I'll try to edit them so they're shorter and show correctly everywhere.

20 Aug 2023 at 0:31 | Open on hachyderm.io
Jérôme Petazzoni

@markstos Okay I was able to edit them but that did reset the number of votes 😭 (which kind of makes sense to avoid changing the result of a poll by switching options after the poll is complete; but... I wish I had gotten a warning😅)

20 Aug 2023 at 0:38 | Open on hachyderm.io
ninavizz

@jpetazzo Design & user research. Tired of OSS projects claiming to prioritize the user experience, but then no ux practicioners were ever engaged.

19 Aug 2023 at 16:28 | Open on mastodon.social
Chris Ferdinandi ⚓️

@jpetazzo the caveat here is people who submit pull requests for meaningless word changes just to rack up there on GitHub contributor count.

But barring that, I wish I got more contributions like that on my projects.

19 Aug 2023 at 16:33 | Open on mastodon.social
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Rasmus Kaj

@jpetazzo
In open source, those things sometimes gets overlooked. In the workplace, the opposite is a larger risk, some people needs to be reminded that actual programming matters too.

19 Aug 2023 at 21:06 | Open on mastodon.nu
Nico Nico Belić

@jpetazzo we really need more people doing documentation, advocacy and tutorials just because programmers are notoriously bad at all of those and would avoid making it easier for other to contribute and are averse to marketing

19 Aug 2023 at 23:41 | Open on emacs.ch
Jérôme Petazzoni

@a13cui 💯 and I just broke my "boost" button :)

20 Aug 2023 at 0:32 | Open on hachyderm.io
Diego Elio Pettenò

@jpetazzo I've been drumming up them being important and necessary for... 18 years?!? When did the time pass so fast?

Anyway if you're able to wade through some Italian, here's my very old take 😅

flameeyes.blog/2005/06/16/come

(Should I rewrite this in English?)

20 Aug 2023 at 1:09 | Open on mastodon.social
Denis

@jpetazzo I'm a strong "non code contribution" advocate and I urge everyone to participate in this

20 Aug 2023 at 7:07 | Open on framapiaf.org
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