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Resources to explain codebase stewardship

This index

Contents

  1. Explaining the mechanics of codebase stewardship
    1. Introduction: collaborative software development
    2. Codebase stewardship
  2. Examples of what codebase stewardship includes

This index contains a set of resources to help explain codebase stewardship.

How best to explain codebase stewardship depends on:

  • the person explaining
  • the background, experiences and knowledge of the audience

The explanation should be adapted to the flow of the conversation. It is always helpful to understand the value proposition for and pain points of the audience.

Explaining the mechanics of codebase stewardship

The resources below are set up to be components that the explainer can draw from in any order or way they find useful.

Introduction: collaborative software development

Codebase stewardship

Examples of what codebase stewardship includes

These examples help illustrate the mechanics listed above.