{"id":700,"date":"2023-07-19T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/?p=700"},"modified":"2024-11-03T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T16:32:50","slug":"contributing-to-spectre-console-open-source-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/2023\/07\/19\/contributing-to-spectre-console-open-source-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Contributing to Spectre.Console open-source software"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recommend contributing to open-source projects as a way to hone your professional skills. Whether you harbour ambitions to change careers, learn something new or find like-minded individuals, there is a project out there for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The global nature of open source will hone your skills in working in distributed, asynchronous development teams that often span multiple spoken languages and cultures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The diversity of views and opinions will mean you will get very good at advocating why you decided to do something in a certain way, be it writing up an issue, making a technical change, or rejecting a PR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sheer breadth of the user base of popular open-source projects (eg. Apache, MySQL, log4net etc) will give you exposure to the specific challenges of making changes to widely used, stable, business-critical applications and libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, I will be honing my skills on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/spectreconsole\/spectre.console\">Spectre.Console<\/a>, continuing to implement a fairly significant design change to the help provider subsystem. I chose to work on this challenge as it spans my analysis, development, testing and documentation skills, keeping my professional knowledge up to date and relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will continue working closely with the overall maintainer; asking for help, explaining what I\u2019m doing, accepting feedback and frequently deferring to their best judgement. None of this is 100% smooth sailing and I relish the chance to practice navigating differences of opinion with someone I trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 years into my professional software career, I once again get to become a beginner, humbled and open to learning. It\u2019s not always easy, but that\u2019s why I love open source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recommend contributing to open-source projects as a way to hone your professional skills. Whether you harbour ambitions to change careers, learn something new or find like-minded individuals, there is a project out there for you. The global nature of open source will hone your skills in working in distributed, asynchronous development teams that often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,20,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source","category-software-development","category-spectre-console","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8082\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}