Post 2: Git Flow and Commit Messages

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Open source owes much of its success to effective Git flow practices. Open-source thrives on community contributions, transforming users into contributors who expand the codebase. However, this growth requires oversight, and Git-flow addresses this by enabling seamless collaboration through Git's features. It ensures everyone works on current versions, maintaining cohesion. Commit messages are integral to Git-flow. They establish a standardized communication style vital for open-source success. In extensive projects, where countless developers tackle numerous issues, clear commit messages link changes to issue tickets, enabling others to pick up where needed.

To me, the most sensible guideline is linking commits to active issues, simplifying issue tracking, and reassuring users their concerns are addressed. Regarding what makes the least sense, having worked with Git extensively, no guideline appears illogical. However, during my early experience, the staging aspect was baffling, leading me to ignore it, and not grasp its role in the Git process.

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Community:  The Runestone project has a vibrant community who are drawn in by the passion of providing free-to-access books. The project has grown very much in the last couple of years and it has been sustained by the backing of the OSS contributors. Furthermore, there is an abundance of computer science books that are going to attract computer science students to the site and there is a high possibility of them turning into contributors.

Leadership: Brad Millers comes to mind when you think of the leader at Runestone Academy. He is the founder, and while I cannot speak with certainty, calls the shots when decisions among the top contributors need him to step in.

Forking: The Runestone project is a public repository that allows anyone to fork and make a tangent website if they believe they can take it in a better direction.

Communication: Brad maintains a blog section on Runestone where there are yearly updates budget posts and general posts to communicate with the community about the direction the project is heading.

Roadmap: The runestone repo has a roadmap section that has all the features and sub-features that are in the pipeline for the future of the project.

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