Mozilla Global Sprint

May 13, 2018 — Reading time: 4 minutes.

I’ve participated in lots of Open Source projects, and even created a few of my own. So you would think I would be well versed in “Working Open”, but this course has taught me so much more!

Whilst on the programme, I have watched my project evolve from something that would generate more “Rust” content into a toolkit that can be used to grow diversity and inclusivity in communities.

A few weeks before the sprint, I started creating tasks (GitHub issues) labelled as good first issue. Previously these would’ve been tasks that I would fixed myself (fix typos, or write introductory text), but it was time to start sharing the work.

It wasn’t long before people started to contribute, it was interesting to see the team dynamics change as more people started to join. I like to think that because myself and Florian greeted people (in gitter) and responded to queries in a timely manner this set the tone for collaboration.

Once someone had contributed to the project I immediately made them a maintainer of the repository. I wanted to remove any potential barriers, that could prevent them from getting things done. This had the added advantage of making more reviewers for PRs.

When I resumed work on day two of the sprint, it was thrilling to see that people had continued to work on the project overnight. This meant I had provided enough work and that the instructions were clear.

Here’s a snapshot of the activity on the project during the sprint. I couldn’t capture the activity for the two days, so this may have included some last minutes fixes on Sprint-eve.

I did some further analysis and concluded the following occurred during the sprint.

I’d like to thank the following people in making this such an awesome “Global Sprint” experience:

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