Community

Github recently released its annual report - Octoverse 2018. Ben Halpern descried an interesting fact about the use of emojis in in Github issue tracker. According to Github infographics in the report, “the kindest” development community is Ruby developers. In a sense of support and appreciation for other developers via the use of emojis. Some might say that this metric won’t say much about the “the kindness” of the community. So you might consider also the age distribution of the developers. As younger generation use emojis more often, I would still consider Ruby programming language as a young one (it’s mid 90s). ...

Always code as if the person who ends up maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live. Code of conduct - absolutely great thing in the world of open source and overwhelming media. We try to setup a certain pattern of communication with others, to avoid bashing, insults or any other types of miscommunication. It perfectly works in community organisation. People know their “do’s” and “don’ts”. Every now and then, I wonder why it’s not always applicable to distributed teams, working on common tasks. I’m talking not about the communicational aspect of conduct, - but an actual work. ...