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Forge Your Future with Open Source
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Forge Your Future with Open Source

by VM Brasseur
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 14m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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How to Exit a Community

For whatever reason—good, bad, or indifferent—sometimes you need to withdraw from a project and its community. How do you do that? You may be surprised to learn that the reason doesn’t actually matter and has no impact on the steps you should take to be a good free and open source citizen as you leave the community. These steps are similar to the ones you would take if you were to leave a job, so they shouldn’t seem unfamiliar.

  • Commit or submit all of your work in progress. If you’ve already started working on an issue or feature and have made some progress on it, make sure to submit those changes to the project so others can build upon your work rather than having to start all over again.

  • Leave all issues you’re working ...

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