Getting Involved

14 Days of jQuery, 2010

See the slides here, or
watch the video presentation at jquery14.com.

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What the team is doing

jQuery Contributors

Development Team

Core Library
QUnit Test Suite
Bug Tracker

Plugins Team

Development process
Management / Strategy
Maintain key plugins

Developer Relations Team

Community outreach
Education
Documentation

Infrastructure & Design Team

Manage jQuery assets
Liaison with hosting providers
Maintain and design jQuery sites

jQuery UI Team

Develop and manage the jQuery UI toolkit
Develop and manage ThemeRoller

Events Team

Manage jQuery conferences
Liaison with sponsors

What You Can Do

Ask Questions

Forum
#jquery on IRC

Answer Questions

Get a little, give a little
Explaining things to others solidifies your own learning and helps spread the love

Publish Your Discoveries

Write about what you've learned
- Blog it
- Comment on other blogs

Share your plugins

Keep the code on a public code repository
- GitHub
- Google Code
Upload to the official jQuery plugin repository
Write clear, comprehensive documentation
- Example: Roundabout Plugin
- Example: Form Plugin

Report Bugs

Use the jQuery bug tracker (currently at http://dev.jquery.com/newticket/)

Post a description of the bug to the appropriate dev list (currently at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev/)

Provide a reduced test case

Fork jQuery

For experienced JavaScript developers only
Learn Git
Fork the jQuery repo on GitHub
Send a pull request
Use jQuery's test suite to ensure that your changes did not break anything.
Add your own tests to cover changes / additions to the code.

Pace Yourself

Plugin management
- Good documentation is key
- If the plugin isn't ready for release or you don't have time to support it, don't put it on plugins.jquery.com.
- You can still have it publicly available on a version-controlled code repository.

Pace Yourself

Blog comment management
- Comments are an important way to learn and improve.
- But comments can get overwhelming.
- Replying to comments can often take longer, in total, than writing the blog entry.
- Before you post a blog entry, make sure you'll have at least a couple hours within the following few days to respond to comments

Suggestions from Others

Excerpts from the official jQuery podcast

John Resig

Contributing to core

Richard Worth

Contributing to jQuery UI

Rey Bango

Becoming a jQuery team member

Thanks for Watching

Want to know more? Watch the video presentation.
Email: learningjquery.com@karl
Twitter: @kswedberg

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