Heavy Duty: What Project Hosting Users are Doing
In July, the
Project Hosting team
announced the
People sub-tab where project
members can easily document their duties within their projects.
Here are
the top ten most frequently selected project duties:
- Lead by providing a
project vision and roadmap
- Design new features, write code and unit
tests
- Design core libraries, write code and unit
tests
- Have fun hacking and learn new stuff!
- Test the
system before each release
- Review code changes and provide constructive
feedback
- Plan the scope of release milestones and track
progress
- Lead the UI design and incorporate
feedback
- Write end-user documentation and
examples
- Triage new issues and support requests from
end-users
Those frequent duties are a testament to the
serious and thoughtful software development processes often found in open source development.
But, open source is not all hard work: our users also decided that it was important to
document some of their more colorful duties. Those ranged from general, "
Be
awesome," to vicarious, "
Watch nervously as students write code," to self-effacing, "
Create elaborate unit tests for small corners of the library, write hilariously
malformed XML comments, and mercilessly break the build," to simply practical
leadership, "
Buy the pizza for everyone else."
Don't skip your duty to write your own! Just click the
People sub-tab and start to document what you and your project team are
supposed to be doing.
By Jason Robbins, Google Code Team
