what i've learned from inheriting a popular open-source project

[bcoe]

In this post I talk about becoming a core contributor the yargs command line parser. The themes being:

• community is really important... it's worth refactoring a messy codebase if it has a good community.
• instead of complaining about open-source not working properly, you should pitch in and help make your favorite libraries better.

CC: @markstory @aredridel, @manishearth, @jameswomack would love feedback!

[aredridel]

I love it!

[Manishearth]

This post is awesome! I might have a closer look later, but it's a really good read (in general I enjoy stories like this) :smile:

[jameswomack]

Very valuable article Ben

[bcoe]

Thanks for all the edits! I'm going to go ahead and ship my first post \o/

[Manishearth]

\o/