SxSW 2015
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The document discusses the evolution and challenges of developing the open-source MVC framework Sails.js, highlighting its growth from obscurity to recognition with a focus on community support and documentation. It emphasizes key aspects of maintaining an open-source project, such as prioritizing user needs, avoiding feature bloat, and documenting effectively. The author also touches on the monetization potential of open-source tools and the future of software development trending towards open-source solutions.
SxSW 2015
- 1. from rags to… open-source? SXSW 2015 #ragstoopensource @sailsjs
- 4. bdfl of the leading open-source MVC framework for Node.js
- 5. the leading open-source MVC framework for Node.js
- 6. at least downloads since 2013400,000 GitHub stars9,800 over downloads / day1,500
- 7. in funding$0
- 8. 3 Stages of Open-Source
- 9. 1. No one knows about your $!#% 2. No one knows how to use your $!#% 3. No one pays you for your $!#%
- 11. est. feb 2012
- 14. love at first sight circa 2011 Node.js...
- 15. so…
- 17. You don't want to be writing all these system calls. You need something that gives you… an ORM abstraction, or something.
- 18. could we use …for everything? I wondered…
- 21. Sails is an MVC framework.
- 22. Sails is an MVC framework.
- 23. Sails is an MVC framework.
- 24. Sails is an MVC framework.
- 25. Sails is an MVC framework.
- 26. Sails is an MVC framework.
- 27. Sails is an MVC framework.
- 28. Sails is an MVC framework.
- 29. first version (late 2011)
- 30. December 2012
- 32. >=20 other community adapters custom app-specific adapters
- 33. January 2013 first halfway-decent docs http://web.archive.org/web/20130514080123/http://balderdashy.github.io/sails/
- 34. posted screencast in early 2013
- 35. …woke up to 1000 views
- 37. reddit — Feb 2013 hacker news — Mar 2013 and again two months later
- 39. managed to get sailsjs.org online mid-spring 2013
- 41. No one knows about your $!#%
- 42. #sails on freenode (IRC) issues groups
- 43. support !== marketing but remember
- 44. support !== marketing ( ) but remember
- 45. measure things
- 46. Github stars NPM downloads / day Google group membership IRC channel activity Number of tagged StackOverflow questions (and your answer ratio)
- 49. ????
- 50. ???????????
- 51. v0.9 introduced a new streamlined asset pipeline
- 52. asset pipeline???? “what about gulp?!” “so thirsty…” asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!! asset pipeline????????!!!!
- 53. so v0.10 introduced generators.
- 54. feature requests are the hydra
- 55. they will never stop.
- 56. they will never stop. ever.
- 57. No one knows how to use your $!#%
- 58. inline jsdoc comments are not enough write docs in markdown compile to HTML
- 59. remain humble you’re never big enough to be a dick
- 60. make something people want
- 61. better yet make something YOU want
- 63. don’t repeat ourselves DRO the goal of open source
- 64. if you don’t actually need a thing because it will suck don’t build it
- 65. only write code you actually need if someone else actually needs something, they’ll write a pull request only merge new code if someone actually needs you to merge it (i.e. there’s no other way, via a plugin or something)
- 70. C O NFI DEN TIA L i nfo rma tion in tended only for t he addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, empl oyee or agent responsible for delivery to the intended recipient(s), please be aware that any review, dissemination, use,distribut ion or copying of this message and its contents is strictly prohibited. If you receive this email in error, ple ase notify the sender and destroy any paper or electronic copies immediately.
- 77. We're just giving you functions that return functions that you do things with. Doug Wilson Lead Maintainer, Express
- 78. A standardized interface for JavaScript functions. node-machine.org/spec
- 79. far more front-end developers ∃ than back-end developers
- 80. far more front-end developers ∃ than back-end developers eventually everyday backend development will be commoditized
- 82. Y Combinator
- 83. driving = bad idea
- 87. “Since we can execute Bash and PowerShell scripts on the machine that is supposed to run the sails app, we can pretty much do whatever we want…” contributes to Sails.js
- 88. “…Treeline is working with the Sails.js community to bring in JavaScript developers who could use the editor to be more productive.”
- 90. No one pays you for your $!#%
- 91. DONT TRY TO SELL FREE SOFTWARE
- 92. creepy
- 94. build a new product on top of open-source tools
- 95. not creepy
- 96. ALL SOFTWARE WILL BE OPEN-SOURCE EVENTUALLY
- 97. give more than you take
- 99. @mikermcneil from rags to… open-source? @ncrumrine