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World 5: Teamwork

Orgs, teams and open source

You will learn: how organizations share work, and how anyone can help an open source project.

The problem

You spot a typo in a famous open source project. You have no access to it. Can you still fix it?

Try it

An organization: A shared GitHub account for a group, with teams and roles for its members. is a shared account for a group, like our club. Members form teams. Each team gets a role. Order the roles from least to most power.

Least power at the top. Put these in order. Use the arrows, or drag.

  • Admin: full control
  • Read: view and comment
  • Write: push code
  • Triage: sort issues and PRs
  • Maintain: run the repo

Watch

open source: Code anyone can read, use and help with, under its licence. code is open for anyone to read, use and improve. Tap each step of a first contribution.

Tap each point on the timeline.

Try it

Before you help, read CONTRIBUTING.md: The house rules for helpers: how to report, change and send work.. It is the house rules for helpers. Open it.

Practice repo — not a real website
pantun-lab / pantun-maker
Make a fun pantun in your browser.
main
README.md

Pantun Maker

Make a fun pantun in your browser.

Help out

New here? Read CONTRIBUTING.md.

Licence

MIT. You may reuse this code. Keep the copyright notice.

Predict

A licence: A file that says what others may do with your code. says what others may do with the code. A public repo has no licence file. Can you copy its code into your app?

Try it

You help run the club repo now. Issue #23 is a tiny typo fix. Mark it as a good first issue: A label for an easy issue that a newcomer can pick up. for newcomers.

Practice repo — not a real website
kelab-kod / club-site

Check

Your first open source PR. Good habit, or needs work?

Swipe right for good, left for needs work. Or use the buttons.

1 / 4

Read CONTRIBUTING.md before you start

You did it!

You can now work in an organization and help open source projects.

Go deeper (optional)

choosealicense.com helps you pick a licence. MIT is short: people may do almost anything, if they keep your notice. GPL asks people who share changed versions to share their code too. Put the licence in a LICENSE file at the top of the repo. In World 12 you make a real open source PR.