Maintainer Days October 21-22, 2024

Welcome and introductions and identifying topics we want to discuss (David and Tracy)

Open time for collaboration – If you'd like to schedule time to meet with other maintainers to discuss a topic or tackle an issue, put your topic here:

• Add your topic here and mention who should consider attending.  You can add your topic by editing the page or leaving a comment.  If you have questions about how to edit the wiki, email community-architects@lfdecentralizedtrust.org

Community building and available resources we offer to maintainers (David Boswell and Sean Bohan)

• Resources for maintainers
• LFDT community infrastructure

Infrastructure tools and how to maximize your project’s infrastructure (Ry Jones, Arun)

• Infrastructure tools and how to maximize your project’s infrastructure.pdf

What questions do you have about community infrastructure?

• More information about documentation – Material for MkDocs - Documentation Template
  • Here is the template
  • FireFly uses it
  • Rendered site
• More on Github Actions and new Github features people may not be aware of
• Arun: (PR for couple of actions)
  • How to set up a scorecard
  • Sign and release for the secure software supply chain

Break

Contributions gone wrong -- what trips up people who try to contribute to your project?  Let's identify issues and then figure out how to address those (David, Ry, Hart, Sean)

Happy hour at 21st Amendment Brewery at 563 2nd St, San Francisco (We have the loft area reserved) – Ask Hart if you have any questions about how to get there

Re-welcome and introductions for any new attendees

Ecosystem mapping (Arun)

• What are the different ecosystems in the LFDT community?
• What are the projects and labs in each ecosystem?
• Example of the Fabric ecosystem doc

Open time for collaboration – If you'd like to schedule time to meet with other maintainers to discuss a topic or tackle an issue, put your topic here:

• Add your topic here and mention who should consider attending.  You can add your topic by editing the page or leaving a comment.  If you have questions about how to edit the wiki, email community-architects@lfdecentralizedtrust.org
• 10:30 - 11:00 am : Interoperability Deep Dive
• 11:00-11:30 Kaleido Team: How collaborating with FireFly can help your project

Project lightning talks (tell people about your project in under 5 minutes)

• Hyperledger Cacti – Peter Somogyvari
• Hyperledger FireFly – Enrique Lacal
• Hyperledger Iroha – Dmitri Venger
• Hiero – Richard Bair
• Hyperledger Identus – Roberto Carvajal
• Cord
• CREDEBL - Ajay Jadhav
• Add your name and project here to reserve a lightning talk.  You can add your topic by editing the page or leaving a comment.  If you have questions about how to edit the wiki, email community-architects@lfdecentralizedtrust.org

Open time for collaboration – If you'd like to schedule time to meet with other maintainers to discuss a topic or tackle an issue, put your topic here:

• 2:00 - 2:15 - Talk about your favorite library/framework:
  • Peter Somogyvari ts-results-es => A TypeScript implementation of Rust's Result and Option.
• 2:15 - 2:30 - Talk about your favorite new language feature:
  • Peter Somogyvari: Raising awareness of the new Error.cause parameter introduced by https://github.com/tc39/proposal-error-cause 

Break

Regional community building and Collaborating with Chapters for community building (Deepika Karanji, co-lead of the LFDT India Chapter and Julian Gordon, VP, Asia Pacific and Middle East at LFDT)

Idea for a new LFDT podcast featuring discussions with maintainers

Improving new project onboarding -- What did you wish you knew when you started your project?  What is missing today and what should be added?  What are the best practices you'd like to see new projects follow? (David)

Closing and wrap up (Tracy)