What's it like to maintain an award-winning open source tool?
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.7 • 53 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Open source contributors and maintainers play a vital role in the technology ecosystem. But what's it like to develop and maintain an open source tool — especially one that thousands of other developers use and depend on?
In this episode of the Technology Podcast, Srinivasan Sekar and Sai Krishna join hosts Rebecca Parsons and Scott Shaw to discuss their work on AppiumTestDistribution, an open source tool that supports test automation framework Appium. AppiumTestDistribution won a LambdaTest Delta Award at the August 2023 Testμ Conference.
Listen to Sekar and Krishna explain how the project emerged, how they approach maintaining and evolving the tool and what it takes to be a part of an award-winning open source project.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to the ThoughtWorks Technology Podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | My name is Rebecca Parsons. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm one of your recurring co-hosts, and I'm joined by Scott. |
| 0:19.0 | Hi, I'm Scott Shaw. I, coming to you from Melbourne, Australia, and I am also one of the |
| 0:26.4 | hosts of the technology podcast. |
| 0:29.1 | And I'm joined today by two colleagues, Shreeney. |
| 0:35.1 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Shrini, and I'm with ThoughtWorks for a little over seven years. |
| 0:40.3 | I'm an open source enthusiast, contributor, maintainer of Appium. |
| 0:45.3 | My journey with Appium is a little long, probably eight-less years. |
| 0:50.3 | And journey with open-source is also a little longer. |
| 0:53.3 | It all started with a small change of a node module in Appyms ecosystem and then an Appian |
| 1:03.5 | user, Appian member, Appian contributor and also founder of App's open source conference as well. Yeah, that's me. Excellent. And |
| 1:17.4 | Sai. Hey, my name is Sai and I work as a principal con at ThoughtWorks. It's been close to about |
| 1:23.7 | close to 10 years hitting ThoughtWorks now. It, a happy journey. And like Cheney said, |
| 1:30.3 | I'm also a sort of, you know, open source enthusiast. So who's been contributing to open source |
| 1:36.5 | for the last roughly about eight, nine years now. And I've been actively doing it as well, |
| 1:41.2 | because I believe I've learned a lot from the community. So one way of |
| 1:44.7 | giving back to the community is open source and I've been continuing to do that. I'm also a co-maintener |
| 1:51.6 | and a contributor to APM. I've done quite a lot of contributions to selenium, gauge by ThoughtWorks, Tyco, |
| 2:00.1 | and not many other, you many other open source tools. |
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