Yeah governance is a big topic for open source, especially as a project gets bigger. I think for those that are non-linux/big ones it just starts with a single person and grows organically from there. Babel itself isn't that structured unlike ESLint or Node.
We did make a team page and have definetely discussed trying to do a more formalized structure but that's hard to enforce/commit to all the time when people are coming and going, having a mostly volunteer time, people taking weeks off, burnout etc.
We talk about it periodically in our slack channel and we started doing "weekly meetings" and posting them at github.com/babel/notes. I was doing it for a while and trying to schedule it. Our GSoC intern Karl puts it well: babeljs.io/blog/2017/08/16/contrib.... It's hard to do meetings when people are across the globe and literally not a good time for everyone in some cases.
I'm kind of tired of doing them so it went to 2 times a week and now I feel like it's better sometimes to just do a weekly summary of what's been going on in the community and the repo (notable PRs, issues, talks, etc). And if someone wants to do a call we can do that. I'd like to ask other members in the community for some calls to talk as well. Recently I joked maybe our meetings should just be playing Mario Kart on the Switch (we just played some yesterday finally).
Does Babel have explicit "governance"? How often do you get together and talk non-code stuff related to the health of the project?
Yeah governance is a big topic for open source, especially as a project gets bigger. I think for those that are non-linux/big ones it just starts with a single person and grows organically from there. Babel itself isn't that structured unlike ESLint or Node.
We did make a team page and have definetely discussed trying to do a more formalized structure but that's hard to enforce/commit to all the time when people are coming and going, having a mostly volunteer time, people taking weeks off, burnout etc.
We talk about it periodically in our slack channel and we started doing "weekly meetings" and posting them at github.com/babel/notes. I was doing it for a while and trying to schedule it. Our GSoC intern Karl puts it well: babeljs.io/blog/2017/08/16/contrib.... It's hard to do meetings when people are across the globe and literally not a good time for everyone in some cases.
I'm kind of tired of doing them so it went to 2 times a week and now I feel like it's better sometimes to just do a weekly summary of what's been going on in the community and the repo (notable PRs, issues, talks, etc). And if someone wants to do a call we can do that. I'd like to ask other members in the community for some calls to talk as well. Recently I joked maybe our meetings should just be playing Mario Kart on the Switch (we just played some yesterday finally).
I just added Angus to the team because he made an awesome song, and why not just make it the "Babel" song. twitter.com/left_pad/status/938956...
I was looking for other ways for people to get involved in OSS/Babel, especially in non-code ways and this is certainly one of them 👏!
Or Jordan with his awesome medium post which lead to the whole Guy Fieri meme: medium.com/friendship-dot-js/i-pee...