Here’s something you may not know about Arcbees; every single line of code that we can open source to our developer community, is open sourced. It is one of our core values. We believe that sharing our work and ideas openly with others can and will inspire great developers to contribute back to our own growing ecosystem of tools.
In the past few week, the number of great programmers collaborating with us in the open source community has been rising, and we want to say thanks to two in particular.
One is Richard Wallis who has contributed most of the work done to construct our Universal Analytics project, and who has also contributed to our GWTP project. He is now a trusted contributor and has been granted write privileges over GWTP and Universal Analytics.
Congratulation Richard!
Equally appreciated is Jonathan Kuleff who went from making a great suggestion for improving our Bitbucket Teamcity plugin to doing the implementation himself in one jump.
Thanks Jonathan!
Both of you contributed really great quality code, and we really appreciate that. We learn from your work, and we hope you learn from ours. That’s what we love about open. The sharing we do around specific projects has ripple effects. We share programming tactics and practices with everyone we collaborate with, and this ultimately helps all developers improve their craftsmanship to create better, stronger, quality code.
Our mission includes the promotion of this kind of code-quality education worldwide, which explains why we subject you new contributions to such rigorous code review. We don’t want to slow you down, but we do want to make sure that future contributors can easily read the codebase we are all putting together. We want the codebase to be useful and fun to program, and also to teach people how to produce quality code. We are thrilled to work with so many open source developers who want to help us do that.
There’s a lot of contributors to our open source projects, we try to thank them in every single release announcement we do around any of our open source projects. We welcome anyone to contribute in any way they can.
Software engineering is a young craft. It is only about 50 years old, unlike mechanical engineering and civil engineering, which have been with us for millennia. Our field is still in its infancy, but it’s growing fast, and this is in large part due to open source. Let’s keep flying forward by sharing code and collaborating on projects. Knowledge is a public good, all of us can have it without ever depleting it.
We look forward to future learnings with you all. See you on our project sites!
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