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Learn how all the individuals and components of an open-source project fit together.
Resources:
- GitHub Guides: About Forking
- Some companies prefer the “forking workflow” of open source for their internal projects. Instead of giving each developer on a team access to the main repository, they ask each developer to fork the main repository and then the developers issue pull requests across the fork. Checkout Abhijit Maity's blog post on Git Fork Development Workflow and best practices.
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There is another group of people who would
like to contribute code or bug reports to
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the project, and another group of people
who just want to use the software.
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In this video,
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I'm going to explain how each part of
the open source puzzle fits together.
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First, let me explain what each person's
role is on an open source project.
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Each project on GitHub has an owner.
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The owner is the person
who owns the repository.
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Sometimes that owner is
a user like kdaigle and
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sometimes the owner is an organization,
like acmeinc.
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The owner has complete control over
the repository, whether it's public or
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