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Volunteers

Oh My Zsh has had contributions from 2,000+ developers across the planet, which is truly amazing and something we're proud of. Yet, there has only been a small handful of developers who have played a big role in organizing, prioritizing, triaging, promoting, and maintaining all these contributions.

Tour of Duty

We are establishing a series of levels so that there is a way for everyone to get an idea of how they can take part.

1. Helper

   Level 1

   • Joining our Discord server and participating in the community conversations that take place.
   • Answering questions on StackOverflow related to Oh My Zsh (and up-voting answers that help you resolve a problem).
   • Asking and/or responding in our GitHub Discussions.
   • Follow us on twitter/@ohmyzsh and share useful links to blog articles, tutorials, and/or discussions.
   • Help us continue to bring the joy of Oh My Zsh to more people by introducing it to peers!
   • …and be sure to thank the person who introduced you!
   Skill(s) neededYou know how to be a delightful human being!

2. Contributor

   Level 2

   • Opening an issue when you encounter inaccurate documentation.
   • Improving the readability of our documentation and wiki content.
   • Creating a new plugin (can be a custom one you share and/or one to pitch for inclusion).
   • Opening an issue when you encounter a weird bug.
   • Fixing a weird bug you encountered.
   • Helping improve an existing plugin.
   • Testing pull-requests that other people have submitted (we usually have a lot to review!).
   • Writing a blog post about how to use a favorite plugin of yours and post about it online.
   • Recording a screencast and uploading it to places like YouTube.
   Skills needed

   • You should be comfortable switching across git branches
   • You should be able to test a pull-request out in your local environment
   • You should be able to run our linters

3. Triage / Moderator

   Level 3

   • Help us moderate channels in our Discord server.
   • Participating in our planning meetings (a few of us meet every other month or so).
   • Testing pull-requests from other contributors.
   • Providing feedback and/or change requests to people who submit pull-requests.
   • Let pull-request submitters know if their proposed plugin, theme, and/or changes might not qualify for inclusion. (TODO: this process requires documentation)
   • Suggest pull-requests to Maintainer(s) that you believe are good for us to consider merging.
   Skills needed

   • You should be comfortable navigating git merge conflicts
   • You should be able to test various plugins across different operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, and CLI tools.

4. Maintainer

   Level 4

   • Keeping an eye out for the long-term maintainability of Oh My Zsh.
   • Participating in our planning meetings (a few of us meet every other month or so).
   • Prioritizing the backlog of issues and pull-requests for the upcoming cycle(s) using input from Triage volunteers.
   • Merging and/or Closing Pull-Requests and Issues in GitHub.
   • Addressing high-priority security incidents and/or bug fixes.
   • Helping coordinate communication through our various user channels.
   Skills needed

   • You should be able to help us in a project manager capacity.
   • You should feel comfortable merging (and/or reverting) big changes to the project.
   • …

5. Maintainer with Admin access

   Level 5

   • Doing a little bit of everything
   • Recruiting new volunteers
   • Steering the project toward a bright future
   • Managing our GitHub accounts, settings, projects, and permissions.

   This is currently handled by:

   @mcornella

   official maintainer of Oh My Zsh

   @carlosala

   official maintainer of Oh My Zsh

   @robbyrussell

   creator of Oh My Zsh

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