Articles about Community
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Improvements to come on contributors board
More features, more modern, and more information about contributors
After all those years without any modification nor improvement, it is time to think about the future of the “Top contribution achievements” board. While discussing with many people from the community on how to open the governance of the open source project, and how to involve more contributors, new needs have been identified. This article is about quick wins, upcoming developments, and about the general spirit behind this work.
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PrestaShop Day Paris 2020: Call for Papers is open
It's time to submit a talk to speak in front of the community
Last year, a developer space was available at the PrestaShop Day Paris. This year, this space grows and will include an area for conferences and workshops dedicated to active contributors to the open source project.
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The (new) PrestaShop Test Framework
And how we're continually improving the quality of the PrestaShop project
For a few months, quality has been a priority for PrestaShop: the QA team and I are proud to announce that we’re making great steps in improving the overall quality of the core project. Automatizing tests is a big part of this process: let’s see what we’re doing, why, and how! Note: this article is focused on the Core only, but that is just a small part of what the QA team is working on. More to come in a future article!
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Introduction to the fuzzy search
When the community implements the Levenshtein algorithm
It is always great to see contributions from our community merged, it reminds the power of working on an open-source project. Especially when there are great features at stake, like the fuzzy search.
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Open Question: What about not committing generated files anymore?
Let’s talk assets, we want your opinion!
This post is the first of a new kind. We decided to open up more with you about technical questioning and decisions for the PrestaShop project. This one is about generated asset files.
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Contributor interview: Tantely Rabevohitra
Discover the faces behind the commits
An open source community is more than just PR made by faceless strangers. In order to better understand the people who contribute time and skills to the PrestaShop project, we’re writing a series of interviews with contributors of all ranges. This week, meet Tantely Rabevohitra, one of our great translators!
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What happens to pull requests after they are submitted
Discover what happens behind scenes during code review
The PrestaShop project currently (September 2019) has 389 pull requests open and new Pull Requests are opened almost everyday. All of these pull requests go through a thorough process which aims to provide a stable, consistent and reliable software that we all know under the name PrestaShop. Here is this process in details.
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Contributor interview: Rodrigo Laurindo
Discover the faces behind the commits
An Open Source community is more than just PR made by faceless strangers. In order to better understand the people who contribute time and skills to the PrestaShop project, we’re launching a series of interviews with contributors of all ranges. This week, meet Rodrigo Laurindo, one of our great translators on Crowdin and best developers on GitHub!
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Contributor interview: Kristaps Kruzmanis
Discover the faces behind the commits
An Open Source community is more than just PR made by faceless strangers. In order to better understand the people who contribute time and skills to the PrestaShop project, we’re launching a series of interviews with contributors of all ranges. This week, meet Kristaps Kruzmanis, one of our great translators!
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Native modules and smart menu
A bit of historical background and the refactoring plan
As an open source project, PrestaShop is continuously being enriched by the company teams, external contributors, developers, etc. Thanks to all the community, it keeps growing in the right direction. The PrestaShop Team is proud and honored to read everybody’s feedback, ideas, translations and pull requests, it helps improving the PrestaShop project and making it better for everyone!
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