How to be a project mantainer on someone else stuff

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This talk start from my personal experience on maintaining Open Source projects of others (Promote-MDN, GlotPress as example). What are the common issues and problems of a newcomer for this role? What do you need to be a co-maintainer also for your projects? From a dev point of view from a manager point of view.

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What are the rules and best practices about be a project manager when the code that you are managing is not yours? Let's see veru quickly!

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• https://toscalix.com/2018/04/15/dear-software-manager-working-in-the-open-for-the-very-first-time-then-this-might-be-for-you-i/
• https://toscalix.com/2018/04/15/dear-software-manager-working-in-the-open-for-the-very-first-time-face-the-challenges-ii/
• https://opensource.com/article/18/4/succession-planning-how-develop-foss-leaders-future
• https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/89zb8x/a_call_for_ale_contributors_crosspost_from_rvim/

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• queit moment to check what others are doing https://media.giphy.com/media/yKHUU78VzxAg8/giphy.gif
• slowdown who push stuff https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7qDVWsui5qkrrpu0/giphy.gif
• be honest with others https://zippy.gfycat.com/PaleBrownHoneybee.gif
• enjoy what others do with your code https://media.giphy.com/media/3o7qDON1FYhi5eoqgU/giphy.gif
• improve documentation based on your experience on joining the project http://78.media.tumblr.com/d66f45fdbcf46a403666e102403184eb/tumblr_n45iqcgU901si3gq6o1_500.gif
• prioritize stuff https://media1.tenor.com/images/df6d2cf010f6140d4ac5ec88485ea9dc/tenor.gif?itemid=5518480

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• check if everything works also if others confirm that https://i.imgur.com/QJ3OWnf.gif
• care of what new contributors say http://gifimage.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/silicon-valley-gif-2.gif
• enjoy the results with others https://78.media.tumblr.com/933c7afb8329c6586074b63d6bd151e9/tumblr_nr8n9praXt1tf53r3o1_400.gif

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• if a project is closed you can always do your version, the others will saw that https://i.gifer.com/8ihv.gif

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My personal experience on that:

• Flatz-CMS fork of XCMS
• Firefox OS Boilerplate
• GlotPress
• WP-Italia-Community/How-to
• Mozillaitalia/vademecum
• Mozilla/remo

A lot of team without repos about internal/organizative stuff

My personal experience with other dev on my projects:

• GlotDict
• Gh-License
• Sharebackported
• WPBP