Joel's Open Source Dev Blog

What's up gang, sorry it took me a while to get back at writing this post. This one's gonna be a 2 part-er. This one's regarding my time as Sheriff during week 5 (Feb 5 - 12) Sheriffin Last week, as I mentioned in my previous blog post, Kevan and I had to sheriff the telescope repo for a week. And it was a great experience in taking charge of an open source project.  From having to look through release-scheduled PRs and Issues, to leading a meeting and speaking for 1 hour and 40 minutes (Felt like forever!), and really treating the Telescope project as your own, carrying the responsibility of maintaining and managing it. OUR Telescope As a Sheriff, you have to have some sort of ownership to the issues and PRs at hand. Even understanding only 50% of it is enough since the assignee should most definitely be able to explain the issue for you. (Big props to Dave, who would often clearly explain most of the issues in telescope right now) Once you know the context of the issue/P...

Howdy, You are speaking to this week's Telescope Sheriff's. That means I (along with my fellow OSD peer Kevan) carry the responsibility of leading the maintenance of the Open Source Telescope repository. That includes, reviewing PRs, filing issues, following up on backlogs, and more. Tomorrow we'll be having our OSD700 class where it really just is one big meeting or status update on everyone's tasks.  In that meeting, we summarize the progress of our big topics(which right now includes Supabase, React Native, new Services, just to name a few), follow ups on the issues set up for the next minor release (2.7) next week, and just updates on what everyone's tasks are or how their progress is going. It'll be my first time trying to lead a big team of developers (most of them who are way more skilled/knowledgeable than I am) so I hope I can lead it in the right direction. Either way it'll be really good project managing experience. OSD700 Last week, after jumping...