Skills Issue: Developer: Donovan Vernon #7745
Labels
Complexity: Prework
prework
Feature: Board/GitHub Maintenance
Project board maintenance that we have to do repeatedly
role: back end/devOps
Tasks for back-end developers
role: front end
Tasks for front end developers
size: 3pt
Can be done in 13-18 hours
Prerequisite
We are looking forward to having you on our team. Please make sure to attend the general Hack for LA onboarding to get the process started https://meetup.com/hackforla/events.
Overview
As a developer on the Website team this issue will be your companion and a place to track your progress with the path we have set out for you.
Special Notes
Action Items
Table of Contents
Sections
1 - Joining the website team
2 - Team Meetings (Options and Requirements)
3 - Development Environment Setup
4 - First GitHub Issue (GFI)
5 - Weekly Updates
6 - 1st Pull Request
7 - Additional reading 1
8 - 2nd good first issue
9 - Pull Request Reviews - GFI
10 - Additional reading 2
11 - Small Issue
12 - Pull Request Reviews - Small
13 - Issue Making - Level 1 (GFI & Small)
14 - Medium Issue
14.1 Issue Making - Level 2 (Medium)
15 - Pull Request Reviews - Medium
16 - Issue Making - Level 2 (GFI)
17 - Merge Team Skills Review
FAQ
Resources
1 - JOINING THE WEBSITE TEAM.
role: front end
orrole: back end/devOps
or both label(s) to this issue and remove therole missing
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2 - TEAM MEETINGS (OPTIONS AND REQUIREMENTS)
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3 - DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT SETUP
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4 - FINDING AND ASSIGNING YOUR FIRST GITHUB ISSUE (GFI)
On assignment, you will be prompted to estimate Availability and ETA.
Once you have done that on your good first issue, check this box, above, on this issue to let us know you have completed that task and understand how to do it in future.
- If you have any questions about estimating the issue you choose, please add them to the issue, put the issue in the "Questions/ In Review" column, and add the labels
ready for dev lead
andStatus: Help Wanted
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5 - GIVING WEEKLY UPDATES ON YOUR DEVELOPMENT ISSUES
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6 - SUBMITTING YOUR FIRST PULL REQUEST
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7 - ADVANCED READING TO READY YOU FOR LARGER MORE COMPLEX ISSUES
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8 - MOVE ON TO 2ND GOOD FIRST ISSUE (AKA, IT GETS EASIER AND DID YOU BRANCH CORRECTLY?)
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9 - GOOD FIRST ISSUE (GFI) PULL REQUEST REVIEWS
Now that you have two merged
good first issue
PRs, you are eligible to review good first issue PRs, Review Required from other people who are following in the same journey path as you.See How to review Pull Requests guide will teach you how to review pull requests.
Please review 5
good first issue
PRs. Each PR requires at least two reviews, so by reviewing 5 good first issue PRs you are repaying the effort that others did for you (provided 4 reviews for your 2 good first issues) plus 1 extra review to help us all make up the deficit for people who submit a PR but don't get this far.good first issue
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PR that your review, please paste the following text in a comment belowgood first issue
PRs to review right now, paste this comment instead and check back later. You can also go onto section 10.⇧ Table of Contents
10 - UNDERSTAND HOW TO PROGRESS THROUGH ISSUES IN THE PRIORITIZED BACKLOG AND ON ISSUE MAKING AND TEMPERATURE CHECK
Congrats on making it this far. Issues get more complicated from here, either they include more changes, or have several files to change or you have to research something that we are unsure how to do, or there is complicated logic that needs writing or rewriting. Each issue size that you take on will guide you to a more complicated level in sequence, and you can see from the labels and overviews what they are about.
Its important that you try to work on issues that fill in gaps in your knowledge (see the self tests for a reminder about what to look for).
So keep going, the fun stuff is about to start.
Having said that, we are also going to have you take on some issue making (surprise! There is no issue making fairy, only volunteers like you that created issues for the people that come after them). Pay attention to how the issues you have already worked on are constructed and how they change as they go up the ladder. That way when we start you on the issue making portion of the team work, you will know what you are shooting for when its your time to make issues.
Also, we want you on the Merge team. This will ensure you are a competent developer and an awesome collaborative contributor to any team you join in the future.
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11 - MOVING ON TO A SMALL ISSUE
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12 - PULL REQUEST REVIEWS - SMALL
Now that you have your small PR merged, you are eligible to review small PRs, Review Required from other people who are following in the same journey path as you.
Please review 3
small
PRs. Each PR requires at least two reviews, so by reviewing 3 small PRs you are repaying the effort that others did for you (provided 2 reviews for your 1 small issue PR) plus 1 extra review to help us all make up the deficit for people who submit small PRs and then drop off the team.small
prsmall
prsmall
prsmall
PR, please paste the following text in a comment belowsmall
PRs to review right now, paste this comment instead and check back later. You can also go onto section 13.⇧ Table of Contents
13 - GET EXPERIENCE MAKING ISSUES - LEVEL 1 (GFI & Small)
Creating issues from templates will give you experience on how issues
and like the good first and small issues you have already done, they are perscritive enough to do with no prior experience issue making.
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14 - MOVING ON TO A MEDIUM ISSUE
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14.1 MAKE A MEDIUM ISSUE FROM AN ER OR EPIC
Only work on this section if you needed a medium issue and one is not available from the prioritized backlog
needs issue: medium
to this issue, so that we can notify you when new medium size issues are releasedready for merge team
ready for merge team
ready for prioritization
label is added. When the new issue(s) are approved, the issue making issue will be closed and you are welcome to move onto the next checkboxneeds issue: medium
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15 - PULL REQUEST REVIEWS - Medium
Now that you have your medium PR merged, you are eligible to review medium PRs, Review Required from other people who are following in the same journey path as you.
Please review 3
medium
PRs. Each PR requires at least two reviews, so by reviewing 3 medium PRs you are repaying the effort that others did for you (provided 2 reviews for your 1 medium issue PR) plus 1 extra review to help us all make up the deficit for people who submit medium PRs and then drop off the team.medium
prmedium
prmedium
prmedium
PR, please paste the following text in a comment belowmedium
PRs to review right now, paste this comment instead and check back later. You can also go onto section 16.⇧ Table of Contents
16 - ISSUE MAKING - LEVEL 2, GFI
ready for merge team
ready for merge team
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17 - MERGE TEAM SKILLS REVIEW
We want everyone who joins this team to get onto the merge team so that you can get experience running meetings and office hours, mentoring, creating sufficent workflow for the team, escalations, and ultimately being responsible for final approval and merging of pull requests made by team members on lower sections. At this point we will check to see if you are ready to join the merge team, or what your next steps are to get you closer to ready.
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FAQ section
Are there exceptions to which size issues I work on?
you can work on one medium issue, but only one at a timeone per person, with some exceptions, see below)- The issues start out as being prescriptive and become less so as you gain more experience by working through increasingly complex issues.
- We are trying to teach you the team methodology through the issues themselves.
- It ensures you understand what we expect and the quality of contributions.
What should I do if I have a question about an issue I'm working on, and I haven't gotten a response yet?
Status: Help Wanted
so other developers can see it and potentially help answer your question. In addition, you will still need to post a Slack message or bring it up in meeting so we know you need help; see below for how to do that."Development team meeting discussion items""Questions/In Review" column of the Project Board so that it can be addressed in the next development meeting. Please bring it during the meeting that you need help.If you need to take some time off from the team
away on hold
.Questions / In Review
column.TRUE
in that column.ready for prioritization
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Resources/Instructions
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Skills List - INTAKE
Skills List, self test on Intake, fill out when you join the team, don't update
Front End
Back End
All Developers
Return to
section 1
section 10
Skills List - ONGOING
Skills List, update as you do work on this team
Front End
Back End
All Developers
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