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海外TECH	DEV Community	Build an Open Source Project: Behind the Scenes	https://dev.to/sibprogrammer/build-an-open-source-project-behind-the-scenes-54ii	Build an Open Source Project Behind the Scenes Starting PointOne of my favorite hobbies is working on Open Source projects Usually it starts with solving my own problem At some point in time I can assume other people may find my experiments useful and it s time to open source the project I see a lot of people think it s enough to push the code to GitHub to open source their project Technically yes it s an essential step Is it enough Definitely not If you decide to open source your project the first preparation steps can be found at guideline If you didn t read it I highly recommend doing that It s still not enough but a good starting point Some time ago I started a project called xq which is a command line XML and HTML beautifier and content extractor written in Go Using this project as an example I want to show what I did to make it a little bit more discoverable and usable by other people MotivationWell you already pushed the source code of your project to GitHub Why do you need to read next Very soon you may realize nobody is using your cool stuff that you were building by night last year It can be disappointing The community around my projects motivates me to continue working on them and improving them bringing some interesting ideas and even code contributions It doesn t matter if it s an Open Source project or a commercial one It is always inspiring to see if your tool is used by hundreds thousands or millions of people The more the better Meanwhile as far as I always start such projects to solve my own problems I benefit a lot from the growing amount of feedback Another thing that motivates me a lot is the ability to experiment with technologies and try new things I have a regular job and work on the commercial product It s always hard to bring something new and unreliable because commercial products are not playgrounds So my open source initiatives always helped me to get some knowledge of technologies I can t use or experiment with on the main job Target AudienceIt s quite important to analyze the potential target audience of your project in detail for the project s success I often see how creators and maintainers expect the same level of skills from their project users In most cases it s a misunderstanding that becomes a problem for both parties For example for my xq utility which deals with XML in CLI and is written in Go I expect the users to know what XML is for and how to use command line utilities But I don t expect the knowledge of Go the corresponding toolchain or even any coding skills at all UsabilityThe next important thing is to think about your project as a product that is at least easy to install and start using Ideally the value of the product is absolutely clear for the end user from the first seconds of your product usage We like to push our Open Source project to GitHub but it s code centric We should help our users with clear and easy installation instructions And here is a trap I use Mac and want my xq utility installable using Homebrew brew install xqI checked the guidelines on how to contribute to Homebrew and found that if your repo has zero stars you have zero chances to be added One needs to find alternatives to start with Ok Go provides a facility for that go install github com sibprogrammer xq latestAt first glance it looks good but it limits the audience to people who already have the Go toolchain installed It s quite a strict limitation So in my case a good starting point was the bash installer for the CLI utility curl sSL sudo bashAfter gaining the first stars we will be ready for new endeavors like brew or apt install But even before thinking about how to make the installation process easy we need to attract a potential user and show the value of our product I really like the projects which have a screenshot or animated video that demonstrates the main features right at the beginning of the README md file If we are talking about CLI utilities the comprehensive set of usage examples is also an essential part If it s some kind of web product a link to preinstalled demo server is a must Life is short and we all are very busy You probably have no sales team to convenience the potential users and people may evaluate your product not longer than just minutes MarketingWell for the majority of us the word marketing has no association with something good interesting and what we want to do But it s not enough to have a good product we need to tell other people about it somehow It is not so hard to start with friends and local communities Twitter Reddit Facebook LinkedIn and other social networks may help you to gain the first feedback and attract the first users I want to tell you the story about xq marketing efforts to show how it works in real life The company I work for has an initiative called Research Days and there is a special event named Research Days Demos So the first presentation I did was at this event for my colleagues There were not so many people but some of them liked the utility I also made a short post in the internal Slack channel related to similar initiatives The next two attempts were to tell about the utility on Reddit One was successful in terms that there was a discussion and the project attracted a few more users and another one was blocked by the moderator and I still have no clue why Eventually I got enough stars to be able to prepare a pull request to join Homebrew Later there was a period of slow organic growth fixing of bugs and implementing new features I researched the ways how to make the installation on Linux more simple and the assistance of distro maintainers helped a lot with adoption At some point in time I decided to try the power of Hacker News and it was so impressive Tons of feedback and feature requests alongside the increasing number of stars I m not a very active Twitter user and have a few followers but after the post to Hacker News I found there are a lot of bots on Twitter trying to repost every piece of news There were even a couple of discussions after such reposts There are some more ideas like joining awesome lists or publishing a dedicated article with a detailed feature set description and use cases In general I think it s a good idea after several months of development to spend some efforts on marketing to improve the product s discoverability Save Your TimeWorking on a project can easily become boring due to different chores Sorting out badly written bug reports manual testing of every change and etc may become a main reason for dissatisfaction Because you are working on an Open Source project spend your time and do it for free One of the ways to keep yourself motivated is to be focused on answering the question of how to avoid chores and save time GitHub allows providing custom templates for new issue creation Do not underestimate It significantly helps to streamline the reports and forces the people to answer the questions necessary to the maintainer The last thing I want to deal with in the scope of my Open Source projects is the regression bugs That s why a comprehensive set of tests is a significant time saver and brings the joy of working on the project improvements Without tests the maintenance of more or less complex projects after release cycles will easily become a nightmare It s interesting to see how often this truth is ignored Writing a set of tests is not enough GitHub Actions is an excellent facility to organize the CI process not only for pushes to the master branch but for the pull requests as well Otherwise it is quite disappointing to find out after the merge of someone s pull request that code style or even tests are broken It s not so hard to setup the actions If you check your favorite Open Source project I guess all of them will have established CI With xq I went even further and automated the release process using GoReleaser To publish a new release the only thing I need is to create and push the Git tag The corresponding GitHub Action will trigger a release process and GoReleaser prepares the binaries and changelog based on declared conventions The result has a high level of predictability and no manual work is required PerksOpen Source projects are usually not about making money At least in a direct way If you want to create a product and are not sure how to monetize it starting this product by open sourcing it can be not a good idea at all from my point of view But there are a lot of other exciting benefits One of them I already mentioned briefly in the Motivation section learning by doing and working with cutting edge technologies can be easier in the scope of Open Source projects Many times after such experiments I re used the knowledge in the commercial products as well If we a talking about a career I believe almost every developer with years of experience should be able to show some code he or she wrote NDA is not an excuse Almost every modern software highly depends on Open Source components So it should be just a matter of time and experience to contribute the fix or improvement to some project I could be completely wrong but as a man who did hundreds of tech interviews during the last two decades it was much easier to build the candidate profile if I could check the code he or she wrote So while working on Open Source projects you are definitely investing in the building of your public profile as a developer Usually you can t build a product without using various tools Some of them can be free and some of them can be commercial The great benefit of working on Open Source projects is that a lot of companies with commercial products have special offers for non commercial development In the case of the xq utility which is written in Go I use GoLand IDE by JetBrains I paid for it for several months but later tried to apply to their Open Source Program They provided me with a license not only for GoLand but for the whole product pack Another example is the CodeCov service I want to track code coverage in an easy way to control the quality and ensure all major scenarios are covered by tests CodeCov is quite expensive for commercial products especially the hosted version which costs K USD but it s absolutely free for Open Source projects and this is awesome If you need project hosting e g for demo purposes you may try to apply to the DigitalOcean Open Source initiative and there are other alternatives available This is just a few examples Connecting the DotsTo summarize the article here are some takeaways I hope you may find helpful If you want to build an Open Source project think about it in terms of the product not the project even if we are talking about the library It should be easy to install and start using The value for the end user should be obvious from the first minutes of usage Without marketing people have almost zero chances to know about your cool project It is surprisingly not so hard to start And it s connected with your long term motivation in more ways than you can initially think about Your Open Source project should not become a tedious job One of the ways to achieve that is to automate all routine work and enforce the policies In the end the release should be a joy and reading user feature requests and bug reports should not make you cry due to the lack of essential details Last but not least working on Open Source projects is rewarding Sometimes it s not so obvious but if we are talking about the long term perspective it definitely is	2023-07-02 18:11:04
Apple	AppleInsider - Frontpage News	How to move photos from My Photo Stream to iCloud -- or elsewhere	https://appleinsider.com/inside/icloud/tips/how-to-move-photos-from-my-photo-stream-to-icloud----or-elsewhere?utm_medium=rss	How to move photos from My Photo Stream to iCloud or elsewhereApple will be shutting down My Photo Stream on July Here s how to make sure those photos are saved and still shareable to all your devices using iCloud Photos or an alternative service When iCloud first launched back in there was no iCloud Photo Library yet to allow for easy syncing and sharing of photos you had stored on one of your devices with any of the others Instead Apple at that time offered My Photo Stream ーa free way to make the most recent photos available via iCloud to your other devices From then until now the service has worked pretty flawlessly albeit with some notable drawbacks My Photo Stream doesn t support streaming videos doesn t support Live Photos and only showed the most recent days worth ーor most recent whichever was greater ーof your photos Read more	2023-07-02 18:08:20
海外TECH	Engadget	Gfycat is shutting down on September 1st	https://www.engadget.com/gfycat-is-shutting-down-on-september-1st-180741599.html?src=rss	Gfycat is shutting down on September stGfycat is shutting down In a notice spotted by Hacker News via The Verge Snap Gyfcat s parent company said it plans to shut down the GIF database and delete all user content in a few short weeks “The Gfycat service is being discontinued a notification at the top of the website reads “Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting and logging in to your account After September all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat com The news of Gfycat s impending demise won t come as a surprise to anyone who has tried to use the site in recent months In May Motherboard reported Snap had allowed Gfycat s security certificates to expire The oversight meant the platform temporarily became inaccessible to most internet users However even before that period of downtime there were questions about whether anyone was still working at Gfycat Over on Reddit there are reports dating back months and even years of broken uploads and an unresponsive support team The shutdown is a reminder nothing lasts not even one of the most popular websites on the internet That s well worth remembering as other platforms suffer from a different sort of neglect nbsp nbsp This article originally appeared on Engadget at	2023-07-02 18:07:41
ニュース	BBC News - Home	Labour plan to give new teachers £2,400 to stay in job	https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66078820?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA	formal	2023-07-02 18:05:36
ニュース	BBC News - Home	England U21s 1-0 Portugal U21s: Anthony Gordon scores winner to seal semi-final spot	https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/66069220?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA	England Us Portugal Us Anthony Gordon scores winner to seal semi final spotAnthony Gordon s first half finish seals England a place in the European Under Championship semi finals as they defeat Portugal in Georgia	2023-07-02 18:23:19
ニュース	BBC News - Home	Stockholm Diamond League: Daryll Neita beats Dina Asher-Smith, Karsten Warholm wins	https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/66080008?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA	Stockholm Diamond League Daryll Neita beats Dina Asher Smith Karsten Warholm winsDaryll Neita wins the women s m ahead of fellow Brit Dina Asher Smith at a rainy Diamond League meeting in Stockholm	2023-07-02 18:40:35