Jason Woosley - Community Engagement 2.0 - Mage Titans Manchester 2016

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We have had incredible community support

with over 6,000 contributions between pull

requests and issue reports. This makes

Magento 2 a stronger platform.

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About Me

Vice President of Technology, Magento Commerce since April, 2016

Responsible for engineering, quality, operations, PMO, user experience, design and technicaldocumentation

Almost 20 years of ecommerce and softwaredevelopment experience

Based in Austin, Texas

BBA University of Texas (Hook ‘Em!)

MBA Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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ENABLEMENTThe care and feeding of an engaged community

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Democratization requires transparency,

participation and openness.

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Transparency mandates a meaningful

divulgence of future work streams, direct

insight into in-flight engineering efforts, and

active outreach.

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Magento 2 Merchant Beta

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Magento 2.1 Release Candidate

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Magento 2 B2B Alpha

B2B

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What about the lessons of today, the

insights into right now?

SUPEE-8788

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Intentional iteration results in continuous

improvement. We listen, learn and cycle at

every opportunity.

We value diversity of perspective and

champion community contributions.

Boatload of pull requests

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We can and will improve our community

engagement, and open source

collaboration, which will accelerate issue

throughput

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Denis Ristic identified a

challenge with static asset

deployment so he made it

better and we agreed

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Pull requests are not the only way to

contribute. Our open philosophy extends to

Tech Docs, How-To Guides and Best

Practices

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What’s next?

Component-level activity heat maps

Active outreach

More Alpha!

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Automation

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We will implement rational

automation that results in

trustworthy analysis

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