Contributor Experience matters - Jarek Potiuk, Ash Berlin-Taylor
Channel: The ASF
Date: 12/10/2021

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Replicated A presentation from ApacheCon@Home 2021
https://apachecon.com/acah2021

In this talk Apache Airflow Committers will tell you why developer and contributor experience matters for Apache Community projects and what they have done together with other members of the community to improve it. They will tell you what kind of problems they had to solve and what their approach was to improve the local development environment and more importantly Continuous Integration environment of the project.

They will tell you how they cut down on the unnecessary usage of the CI but at the same time they achieved higher stability and up to 90% speedups of Continuous Integration jobs. 

But this story does not end with Apache Airflow, part of the talk will be also on how what they learned might be applied to the whole Apache Community. Apache Airflow project’s learning has already been put in practice and improved upon by several other Apache Projects, and this talk hopes to encourage other Apache projects to follow.

This talk has also a deep-dive counterpart talk “How to tame the GitHub Actions queue times” that explains technical details of how we solved long queue times in GitHub Actions - which was one of the biggest problems we had to deal with.