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How to Manage an Open Source Project

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Managing a popular open source project can be daunting at first. How do we maintain all these issues, or automatically trigger our test suite for incoming PRs? And what's a useful workflow for brainstorming and adding new features? In this series, together, we'll manage and maintain an open source forum, called Council, that we originally built from scratch here at Laracasts.

Syllabus

The GitHub Repository
Installation Instructions
Resolving Our First Issue
The Issue and PR Grind
Feature: Forum Reputation
Feature: Forum Reputation Refactoring
Feature: Displaying Reputation
Feature: Reducing Reputation
Licensing and Code of Conducts
Merging and Tweaking a Large PR
Continuous Integration
StyleCI
Syntax Highlighting PR With Refactoring
The Importance of Understanding a PR
Queues and Worker Bees
A Thread Can Be Pinned
Archiving Channels With TDD
Simpler Queries With Global Scopes
The Test Proves It's a Bug
Squashing and Merging the New UI
Upgrading to Laravel 5.6
Parsing a "Work in Progress" PR
Calculating Paginated Reply Paths
Git Tagging and Releases

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Jeffrey Way

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