🔨 The long over-due commit of Open Source
Known for his open source and JavaScript security initiatives, Liran Tal is an award-winning software developer, security researcher, and open source champion in the JavaScript community. He's an internationally recognized GitHub Star, acknowledged for his open source advocacy, and has received the OpenJS Foundation's Pathfinder for Security for his work on Node.js security. His contributions to developer security education include leading OWASP projects, building supply chain security tools, participation in CNCF and OpenSSF initiatives, and authoring books such as O'Reilly's Serverless Security. He leads the developer advocacy team at Snyk.io and is on a mission to empower developers with better application security skills.
Oct 9, 2017 ~ 1 min read
🔨 The long over-due commit of Open Source
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This is a story of patience in Open Source, where every bug, every Pull-Request gets attention.
I discovered freeboard, an opensource dashboard for Visual UI Widgets.
I needed to use it for a Hackathon we were performing in my team last year.
The framework is very cool and mature, the creators of freeboard even have a SaaS offering for anyone to sign-up and share dashboards. Getting the product to work on your own computer is easy, but for new comers the README documentation is lacking.
So here’s my Pull-Request to fix that, and ease new-comers to the project.
Yes, you’re reading right — this PR is from last year! 7 months ago…
Some people commented on the PR, but only months later this was reviewed and merged to freeboard’s mainstream branch:
So don’t give up. Do your best to improve software wherever it is.
As Eric Raymond says and attributes Linus:
“given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”
So what open source projects have you been working on lately?
