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Open-source

Who, what, why, where, how

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or how I learned to stop hiding; and expose the bomb

This slide-deck: https://offscale.io/cse-07-19.html

Who am I

What

Open-source means freedom.

Freedom to share code, usually commercially and privately.

Licenses

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Why

• Development speed
• Quality (tests; security; documentation)
• Interoperability
• Community
• Learning

Where: Charity

Where: Gov't

• Auditability & accountability

Where: Business

2018

• Mesosphere raised $125M ($247M to date)
• Hashicorp raised $100M ($174.2M to date)
• CoreOS bought for $250M by Red Hat
• Red Hat bought for $34B by IBM

How: new project

0. Pick a license;
1. Pick a name;
2. Create a repository;
3. Upload repository (e.g.: to GitHub)

How: existing projects

0. Pick a project;
1. Pull it to local computer [usually];
2. Make modifications;
3. Send back modifications

How: for n00bs

New to programming, or a nonprogrammer?

No matter. Plenty of low-hanging fruit; even for you!

(see appendix for details)

github.com/SamuelMarks github.com/offscale samuel@offscale.io /in/samuelmarks

Appendix

Low-hanging

• README.md cleanup (the first document the public views);
• Spell checking;
• Linting (semicolons, tabs vs. spaces, &etc.);
• Badges/shields, like:

Low-hanging

• Code quality metrics (automated, e.g.: with CI/CD integration)
  • Code coverage
  • Test coverage
• Dotfiles: adding these to the root of the repository increases quality:
  • .gitignore; .editorconfig

Low-hanging

• Compliance (e.g.: PEP8 in Python; strict-mode in ECMAScript)
• Writing simple tests

Medium-hanging

• Writing tests
• Static code analysis with tooling, e.g.: what opening a project with a JetBrains IDE, selecting "Code"->"Inspect Code..." from the menu bar will expose

Medium-hanging

• CI/CD integration (Azure Pipelines; Travis CI; Appveyor and/or CircleCI)
  • See next slide

# Filename: .travis.yml
language: node_js
node_js:
    - "lts/*"
cache:
    npm: true
before_install:
    - npm install -g npm
install:
    - npm ci
script:
    - tsc
    - npm test
after_success:
    - npm run coverage

Medium-hang

• Interoperability, e.g.:
  • OS support for: Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD
  • Language support for: Python 2 & 3 [not as relevant anymore!]; newer/older JS
  • Package support for application-level dependency managers, e.g.:
    • Python: setup.py; Node.js: package.json; Rust: Cargo.toml

Medium-hanging fruit

• Docker integration
  • See next slide

# Filename: Dockerfile

# Use Node.js' long-term support release
FROM node:lts-alpine

# Copy source code
COPY . /app

# Change working directory
WORKDIR /app

# Install dependencies
RUN npm ci

# Expose API port to the outside
EXPOSE 80

ENTRYPOINT ["npm", "start"]

High-hanging

• Bots to automate changes, from small things like updating dependencies, to large things like modifying a codebase through AST traversals
• Major contributions to large codebases, e.g.: adding strict resource limits to FreeBSD jails by modifying the kernel

Workshop

0) Workshop: contribute

0. Create an account on https://github.com
1. Pick a project, e.g.: from https://github.com/explore

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1) Make your own copy of the project

This is generally dubbed a fork.

Most commonly, forks are used to either propose changes to someone else's project or to use someone else's project as a starting point for your own idea.

• https://help.github.com/en/articles/fork-a-repo

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2) Contribute

0. Install git: https://git-scm.com/downloads
1. Open your terminal / command prompt
2. Run git clone followed by the URL of the repository, e.g.:

git clone https://github.com/SamuelMarks/restify-orm-scaffold

3) Contribute

3. Modify (e.g.: using the CLI, an IDE, manually modifying using a GUI file manager)
4. On the command-line, cd into the directory you cloned
5. Run:

git config --global user.name "FIRST_NAME LAST_NAME"
git config --global user.email "NAME@example.com"

4) Contribute

6. Create a feature branch with:

git checkout -b feature_name_goes_here

7. See your modifications with:

git status

5) Contribute

8. Add your modifications by specifying the relative filename for each modification you want:

git add <filepath/filename> <filepath/filename>

9. Commit your modifications with:

git commit --message "Commit message goes here"

6) Contribute

10. Put your changes online, with:

git push origin feature_name_goes_here

11. Send PR—using hub CLI—or online (see next slides)

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See first slide

Your turn

0. Explore github for the open-source project you want to contribute to
1. Add a new issue to https://github.com/offscale/offscale-presentations specifying which project you're working on
2. Contribute ;)

Next steps

• Get free stuff: https://github.com/AchoArnold/discount-for-student-dev
• Continue contributing
• Profit

This slide-deck: https://offscale.io/cse-07-19.html

github.com/SamuelMarks github.com/offscale samuel@offscale.io /in/samuelmarks