From now on every-time we contribute to an OSS project in working hours, we fork it to the FastRuby.io organization.
This way we can keep track of the contributions we made as a company, also the branches created in the project are accessible to the rest of the team.
As a company we get these benefits:
- We use OSS projects and we want them to be better
- We want our brand to be associated with these OSS projects
- We want our teammates to learn more about these projects
- We want our contributions to be noticed
- We want to use our contributions in the future
- Sometimes contributions take a long time to be merged into the main OSS project. This way we make sure that we include references to our company’s organization.
- None of our references will point to a person’s repository. They will point to one of our company’s fork.
As an individual we get to keep the benefits too.
- Display the user in the PR page
- Display the contribution in the user's contribution graph
- Display commits authored by the original user
When creating a new OSS project it is good to have a good README. The readme should include steps on how to install the project, if you want to contribute it should have steps on how to contribute to their projects and a code of conduct
In project that we create and we dedicate time on it we include the following banners.
We want a welcoming, inclusive and harassment free space in all our project thats why we decided to include the [code covenant](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/) in all our projects.
We choose the MIT license for all of our projects