Iāll first clarify /ā correct some facts, then discuss my interpretation.
Iāve been at CEA since September 2017. I have been working full time on the Forum since May. Previously, I was only trying to keep it up to date with LessWrong. As mentioned in the previous post in this series, Sam does not work directly on the Forum.
Correct. The developer term of art is āforkā. In this case itās a fork where we push our changes upstream to LessWrong, and keep up to date with their changes.
When I say āBuilt the timeframe featureā I do in fact mean that I built it. It exists on LessWrong because I submitted a Pull Request. For Community Favorites section I refactored a small amount of code to make it fit back into our frontpage, (as LessWrongās is used quite differently) and to have it include posts from the āCommunityā section at the userās option. These two features were selected for relevance to the metric, but donāt represent the entirety of my work.
Iāll let Sam reply with the amount of behind-the-scenes work that heās needed to do on the Funds & Giving What We Can (if he wants, also fair warning that he might want to wait till a workday).
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As an open source project, weāre quite a bit more open than the average software project, but I realize itās hard to assess the work that goes into a tech project from the outside.
Given the state it was in previously and the commercial alternatives, Iām pretty happy with the progress made on the Forum.
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Iāll first clarify /ā correct some facts, then discuss my interpretation.
Iāve been at CEA since September 2017. I have been working full time on the Forum since May. Previously, I was only trying to keep it up to date with LessWrong. As mentioned in the previous post in this series, Sam does not work directly on the Forum.
Correct. The developer term of art is āforkā. In this case itās a fork where we push our changes upstream to LessWrong, and keep up to date with their changes.
When I say āBuilt the timeframe featureā I do in fact mean that I built it. It exists on LessWrong because I submitted a Pull Request. For Community Favorites section I refactored a small amount of code to make it fit back into our frontpage, (as LessWrongās is used quite differently) and to have it include posts from the āCommunityā section at the userās option. These two features were selected for relevance to the metric, but donāt represent the entirety of my work.
Iāll let Sam reply with the amount of behind-the-scenes work that heās needed to do on the Funds & Giving What We Can (if he wants, also fair warning that he might want to wait till a workday).
ā
As an open source project, weāre quite a bit more open than the average software project, but I realize itās hard to assess the work that goes into a tech project from the outside.
Given the state it was in previously and the commercial alternatives, Iām pretty happy with the progress made on the Forum.