2025/SD/opensource
Open source development organizing was a session at IndieWebCamp San Diego 2025.
- Archived from: https://etherpad.indieweb.org/opensource
TODO: add video once archived
IndieWebCamp San Diego 2025
Session: Open source development organizing
When: 2025-12-13 17:15-17:45
Hashtag: #opensource
Participants
Intial Questions
What are the priorities for IndieWeb open source contributions?
- What projects should the community focus on?
- How to encourage use of community standards (better libraries? better test tooling?)
- Where are the gaps in current tools that limit adoption? (e.g. implementations of algorithms to make parsed microformats easier to use?)
Tantek Çelik and even smaller steps like which projects should we highlight on https://github.com/indieweb (and possibly also https://github.com/microformats), i.e. re-assess pinned repos
Notes
- IndieWeb is very "start a project" friendly
- There are lots of projects but not all are maintained
- It is very informal for projects to get adopted
- There is no "community changelog"
- How do we know who can review/merge PRs on projects
- Can we have 2+ maintainers per project?
- Should review all community repos for open PRs
What do you look for in a project?
- Activity
- Stability
- How do you determine stability
- Unit tests
- Number of maintainers (more than 1 but not too many)
- Attention to detail in README
How do we get more engagement?
- Give incentives
- Google sumer of code
- "Software carnival" like a blog carnival
- Bug hunting parties
- Hackathon events
Proposal
- Annual review process
- List of top projects
- Importance (installs, activity)
- Clear readme (title, desc, test status, contact info, contribution guide, changelog)
- 2+ maintainers who are available within a few works
- A "stable" version number (1.0+)
- Compatible with latest language, framework, specs
How to get engagement
- Can we get code changes into "this week in the IndieWeb"
- New/closed issues
- # of commits
- releases/tags
- Grouped by language
- Start to track a list of projects on the wiki
Anthony Ciccarello could take on reviewing some projects- IndieWeb code carnival where project maintainers sign up for a week to get engagement
Conclusions
- Establish standards for community projects to be included in github org
- Encourage some standards for indiependent projects
- Update/organize list of projects on wiki
- Kick off indieweb code carnival