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Did I tell you open source was awesome?
Clermont-Fd Area, France2022-03-12 // I proofread this article and removed dead links.
A few months ago, my father offered me a Karotz (the new Nabaztag) for my birthday. At the same time, I started to learn how to write a Jenkins plugin, and I knew this kind of rabbit could be programmed. That’s why I decided to write a Karotz-Plugin.
As an Open Source Software enthusiast, I published my code on GitHub right at the beginning. The plugin was in a work in progress state but quite usable. Unfortunately, I was unable to improve it for weeks after the initial publication.
When I got some free time to work on it, I saw my repository had been forked. Surprise! Someone improved my work and published it as an official Jenkins Plugin. Wonderful!
I pulled the repository, and learned a lot from the developer who worked on the plugin. Isn’t that awesome? First, my code has been reused. Second, I learned new things. Oh, and I got an awesome plugin for Jenkins and my Karotz! 😎
To summarize, it sounds like a really good idea to open source everything, even if it’s a draft/work in progress or even an idea. Someone could find this idea quite amazing and could contribute to it. Thanks to GitHub, open sourcing something is really really easy these days :)
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