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Your Open Source Repo Needs A Project Manager

Rust Programming Language
RustConf 21:53 7513 views

Wondering why your open source project is struggling to turn users into contributors? Frustrated by how intimidating and opaque your favorite project is? Overwhelmed by your issue backlog? Open source projects are often focused on the shiny technical features, but investing in transparency, contributor onboarding and clear task prioritization is often the single most productive thing you can do. This talk covers fundamental strategies for project management, and discusses how to adapt them to th

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Open Code Review: Trust Fosters Responsibility

RustNL
RustWeek 19:25 551 views

Open Code Review: Trust Fosters Responsibility by Alice Cecile. Code review is a task for trusted experts: carefully controlling quality, passing on wisdom and enforcing a coherent project vision. Right? Not in the Bevy community! Here, review is for everyone: distributing responsibility, nurturing growth and pulling users into the open source process by asking them for feedback before features ever ship. This talk will cover the why and how of open code review, including pitfalls to watch out for, and hopes to convince you that you can and should adopt this practice in your own projects. About Alice Cecile (she/her): Ecologist, designer, project manager, programmer: she just can't stop multiclassing. Alice works to keep the Bevy project on track, building an open source Rust game engine with hundreds of contributors. - git: https://github.com/alice-i-cecile/ - bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/alice-i-cecile.bsky.social - mastodon/fedi: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@alice_i_cecile This talk was given at RustWeek 2026 as part of the Main track on Wednesday 20 May. You can find a playlist of all talks in this track at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Q1w7Ff68DBHOkO7RYrG6sF6ZQWOJgEE, and a playlist of all RustWeek 2026 talks at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8Q1w7Ff68DBpmF38rcIAf8Z9Gj2TnlgM For information about RustWeek 2027, go to https://2027.rustweek.org. We hope to see you there!