We are excited to share a new gem for the Ruby community: dotenv_validator
! A library that will help you validate
that the values in your environment are valid according to the comments in
your .env.sample
file.
Articles on Open Source
Contributing to open source projects is a big part of our philosophy at OmbuLabs. It’s even written into our values. Some of us like to contribute to open source even in our spare time!
Recently we have been thinking about what guidelines we should follow when starting a new open source project, and also about how to organize and keep track of the ones we contribute to.
This article will give you some tips on keeping those open source projects organized, and also how to start them off on the right foot.
Read moreThere are some really great guides for starting a new open source projects, yet when it comes to dealing with a possibly abandoned, unmaintained project, there is no definitive guide for users, contributors, or maintainers.
I hope that this can be a useful guide for our community.
Problem
When do you declare that an open source project has been abandoned? How many
days have to go by until you start maintaining your own fork? What’s the
standard for communicating with maintainers, contributors, and users? How do
you avoid n
competing OSS forks of popular projects? How do you avoid
duplicated work by people who want to maintain popular, but unmaintained OSS
projects? What’s the best way to find that one fork everybody is using?