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Strength and appearance Coexist -- an exclusive interview with Liu Yu, a member of Apache pulsar PMC

2022-06-11 09:02:00 【StreamNative】

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Watched the... Which ended years ago Pulsar Summit Asia 2021 Your audience will find , In the opening speech on the first day , There is a girl who introduces to you in a gentle voice Apache Pulsar Project and community , This girl is from StreamNative New arrivals Apache Pulsar PMC Member Liu Yu , It's also Apache Pulsar The second woman PMC member .

Life should forge ahead

With the most PMC The difference between the members is that , Liu Yu is a non code contributor . As a Technical Writer（ Technical documentation engineer ）, Liu Yu's main direction is to write for the project “ Instructions ”, Describe the content of technology development . With excellent document quality and community influence , Liu Yu is now two Apache Top level project Committer.

From the contact with Liu Yu, we can find , She is willing to challenge herself 、 Willing to learn . Although more and more women are joining the open source industry now , But a few years ago, the open source industry was a minority .2016 year , Liu Yu began to participate in open source projects , At that time, the domestic open source industry had not yet started , She also hesitated to be a “ Eat crab ” People who , Finally decided to meet the challenge , From hardware to software , Keep communicating with programmers 、 Study , Enrich your knowledge reserve in this industry , Integrate into a new career .Pulsar Documents that can be seen on the official website and some Pulsar Ecological documentation , Liu Yu's contribution and achievements are reflected in .

Girls watch open source

as everyone knows , Become a Apache Project Committer It is enough to show a person's professionalism and investment in the project . Why did Liu Yu become a project in Committer Then he joined Pulsar Well ？ Liu Yu said he was optimistic about this technology , Under the cloud native trend , Storage separation meets enterprise requirements .

From database （DB） To the messaging system , Liu Yu said DB More fun and interactive 、 More infrastructure , However Pulsar The community is more active . From a female perspective , She gives full play to the natural advantages of women in the community ： Listen for 、 Empathy , High fault tolerance and strong flexibility . Liu Yu is a very active open source person ： Communicate with other influential communities ; Initiate... In the community PIP; Communicate with community contributors from around the world ; Organize technical document engineers to share experience ; Participate in community operations ...... Women's participation in open source is no longer a small probability ,GitHub COO It's women. , It can also be seen at the domestic open source annual conference and many activities , There are many women playing the roles of community document engineer and operation . Now the open source community is more diversified 、 Interesting , Bring more perfect open source and good experience . Non code people can also participate in the community and bring a lot of influence .

Building communities , realize one 's ambition

As a person who has been actively building communities PMC member , Liu Yu also has many suggestions and Thoughts on the diversified development of the community .Apache The community has a purpose “Community over code”, Liu Yu brought such an interpretation ：

• The first meaning is ： The open source community is not just crowdfunding code , Not a personal hero . Many people only believe in technology , Don't care about community operations ; Many people only read books and don't plant trees , Separation of theory and practice . A good community is embodied in content operation and activity operation .• The second meaning ： The open source community is more than one third of an acre . Open source itself is an efficient production relationship , In order for more people to distribute and use good technology , So there is an open source license 、 With commercial companies ; In order to build a better community and Ecology , It's not just about training people 、 Optimize development , We should also cultivate a good open source concept and environment .• The third meaning ： Non code farmers are also one of the main forces participating in the community . Many non coders are still waiting. That's not as good as “get your hands dirty”, Get in touch with 、 Exercise more . True knowledge comes from practice , Only by taking the first step can we move towards a qualitative leap . From the perspective of a professional document contribution , Not just product managers 、 Product operation and other occupations are suitable for document contribution , Anyone can . As the user , Whether professional or not, they have their own perspective ,issue And suggestions are of great value and significance .

The open source community has users and developers from all over the world , So everyone will go through the mailing list 、 Discuss... In English . We have heard many people say more than once that it is difficult to cross the language barrier , But Liu Yu is just a counter example . English is not good 、 Timidity is the norm ,“ Don't be so demanding of yourself , Bold participation , In fact, other people's requirements for you will not be as harsh as you are for yourself ”. Others said they didn't care or didn't want to participate , Regarding this , Liu Yu also has a different view ：“ We should think more about the value of work rather than just completing it , You will find that there are many things worth communicating with others in the community , And will benefit a lot ”.

Now the domestic open source community is actively absorbing women's power , Optimize projects from different gender perspectives . Create a diversified community , Reach more women , Liu Yu suggested that we first try to explore the direction we are good at , At the same time, the community can also launch women's activities , For example, build a women's Forum 、 Set up a women's activity fund and so on , Encourage women to participate in open source .

Building Pulsar file

Last , Liu Yu called on everyone to contribute to the document . a new year , She works with the community to actively cultivate “documentation first” Culture 、 System and concept . At present, the community has launched several PIP, To create a better document experience , Make it more self-help like a dictionary ：PIP 98、PIP 116 yes Pulsar Document writing guide ;PIP 112 Designed to automatically generate release note;PIP 87 It's about updating and upgrading Pulsar Proposal for the framework of the website . Documents will also be classified by role ： beginner 、 developer 、 Management （ user ） wait . You are welcome to make suggestions for the document in the process of use , Benefit by mutual discussion , Jointly optimize the document experience .