I’ll first clarify / correct some facts, then discuss my interpretation.
I’ve 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 “fork”. In this case it’s a fork where we push our changes upstream to LessWrong, and keep up to date with their changes.
When I say ‘Built the timeframe feature’ 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 LessWrong’s is used quite differently) and to have it include posts from the “Community” section at the user’s option. These two features were selected for relevance to the metric, but don’t represent the entirety of my work.
I’ll let Sam reply with the amount of behind-the-scenes work that he’s 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, we’re quite a bit more open than the average software project, but I realize it’s 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, I’m pretty happy with the progress made on the Forum.
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I’ll first clarify / correct some facts, then discuss my interpretation.
I’ve 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 “fork”. In this case it’s a fork where we push our changes upstream to LessWrong, and keep up to date with their changes.
When I say ‘Built the timeframe feature’ 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 LessWrong’s is used quite differently) and to have it include posts from the “Community” section at the user’s option. These two features were selected for relevance to the metric, but don’t represent the entirety of my work.
I’ll let Sam reply with the amount of behind-the-scenes work that he’s 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, we’re quite a bit more open than the average software project, but I realize it’s 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, I’m pretty happy with the progress made on the Forum.