The problem developers new to open source have is joining the community, starting to contribute, and using common open source tools. In this session, attendees will learn how to contribute and become valuable a part of any open source community. Attendees will learn soft and hard skills based on two case studies: Eclipse MicroProfile and Apache TomEE projects. Attendees will learn to access the culture of open source projects, expected behavior and attitude toward new contributors; how to start small, take risks, ask lots of questions; and how to get started with common open source tools like Maven, Git, and JIRA. Students will leave this workshop the soft skills and the hard skills required to make meaningful contributions.

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César Hernández
It’s Easy! Contributing to Open Source

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Who am I?
César Hernández
● Senior Software Engineer at Tomitribe
● Java Champion & Oracle Groundbreaker
Ambassador
● Duke’s Choice Award 2016, 2017
● Oracle Certified Professional
● +14 experience with Java Enterprise
● Apache TomEE, Eclipse Jakarta Committer,
Contributor for Microprofile.
● Open Source advocate, teacher and public speaker

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What is Open Source?
https://opensource.com/resources/what-open-source
“The term "open source" refers to something people can modify and share
because its design is publicly accessible.”
“Open source software is software with source code that anyone can inspect,
modify, and enhance.”

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Why you should be involved in open source?
● Become a part of a community
○ New friends
○ Networking
○ Recognition
● Skill Enhancement
○ Improving your programming skills
○ Understanding software architecture
○ Deeper knowledge of a specific software domain
○ Experience working on distributed teams

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Why you should be involved in open source
● Experience working with with many different kinds of people
○ Resume and Portfolio Enhancement
○ Reference open source in resume
○ Use GitHub or other repos to show your work
○ Business opportunities (for example: support offering)

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Looking for an expert?

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How open source works?
● Commercial Interests
○ Donating company
○ Sponsor
○ Open Source Support
● Community
○ Types of people involved
○ Social norms

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How open source works?
● Governance
○ Who is in charge?
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How open source works?
● Governance
○ Who is in charge?
http://pngimg.com/download/30404

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How open source works?
● Governance
○ What are committers?
https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Benjamin_(nerd)?file=Benjamin,_Doug,_and_Gary.gif

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How open source works?
● Governance
○ How are decisions made?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:All_Simpsons_characters.jpg

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How open source works?
● Governance
○ Types of Licenses
82Approved
Licenses
{
MIT
APACHE 2.0
GNU GPL v3.0
Most common
licenses on GitHub
https://choosealicense.com/

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The tools of open source
● GIT and the Forking Workflow
● JIRA and Bugzilla
● Maven and Build Automation tools
● Project Mailing lists
○ user@ vs dev@
● Instant Messaging / Chat
○ IRC
○ Slack
○ Gitter

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The tools of open source
● Video Telecommunication tools
○ Zoom,
○ Hangouts,
○ Skype

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Choosing an open source project
● Programming Language
● Technology Domain
● Leadership and Governance
● Community culture
○ Friendly
○ Fast and Furious
○ Experts only
○ Nasty

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The types of contributions
● Code
● Documentation
● Workshops
● Testing
● Continuous Integration
● Moderator on communication channels
● “ any substantive action that generates content”
https://octoverse.github.com/

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Apache TomEE
● JavaEE certified Apache Tomcat version
● Jakarta EE 9 in progress (formerly Java EE).
● Build from Apache components
● Footprint: 30MB zip, 100~MB memory

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300+ 730+ 7k+
1.058B+ 20
https://files-dist.s3.amazonaws.com/AnnualReports/FY2019+Annual+Report.pdf

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The Apache way
USER
ContributorContributor
Committer Committer
PMC Chair
BOARD
USER
PMC Chair

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Tooling
● dev and user mailing lists
● JIRA
● Slack
● GITHUB mirror from SVN
○ Pull request model for interaction
tomee.apache.org/community

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Technical prerequisites
● Java SE
● Maven
● Git
● Jakarta EE (Java EE)
● Junit
● Arquillian
● ...

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Contribution types
● Documentation
● Website fixes
● Code tests
● Code examples
● Coverage increase for unit, integration, performance
and static tests
● New features
● Dependencies updates
● Workshops

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https://www.tomitribe.com/blog/its-easy-requesting-and-discovering-jira-tickets-in-tomee/
https://www.tomitribe.com/blog/its-easy-get-the-tomee-source-code-and-join-the-community/

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TomEE Hack Day

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https://www.tomitribe.com/blog/tomee-for-every-day/
TomEE for the Day!

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What is MicroProfile?
● http://microprofile.io
● Enterprise Java for MicroServices
● Open Source (Eclipse)
● Implemented by different vendors.
● Application portability across runtimes.

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MicroProfile 3.3

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Eclipse Foundation
https://www.eclipse.org/membership/documents/eclipse-foundation-overview.pdf
360+ 275+ 1550+
195M+ 15 30

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Governance in MicroProfile
● Who is in charge? Eclipse foundation -> top level project
● What are committers? by merit
● How are decisions made?
● Types of licenses

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Tooling
● Google
○ groups
○ Calendar
● Github
○ Issues
○ Wiki
○ Release notes
● Gitter
● Zoom biweekly community
calls

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Technical prerequisites
● Java
● Maven
● Git
● Junit
● ...

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MicroProfile Community

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Thank you
César Hernández
It’s Easy! Contributing to Open Source