Rachel Nabors leaving Meta
Rachel Lee Nabors 💙 (@rachelnabors)
After almost three years, today is my last day on the React team at Meta. When I joined, I had a list of things I wanted to do for the React community to "push the ball in the right direction"... https://t.co/hxTlKUzUlF
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i understood the docs revamp to be rachel's project, so i'm not super sure what her leaving means for future changes. sounds like dan is owning a lot of the writing for it now, but mark made a really good comment on the initial docs issue https://github.com/reactjs/reactjs.org/issues/3308#issuecomment-1051055907
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New React Docs · Issue #3308 · reactjs/reactjs.org
Updated October 22, 2021! We have released React Docs Beta. See more details in the announcement and leave feedback on this issue! Updated June 10, 2021! Full details in this comment. Over the next...
Rachel had some interesting comments over on Twitter in response to me advertising that "get the community involved!" comment:
https://twitter.com/rachelnabors/status/1497303466187833346
https://twitter.com/rachelnabors/status/1497330813523742724
https://twitter.com/rachelnabors/status/1497352542908473349
and later:
https://twitter.com/rachelnabors/status/1497379455697887236
Rachel Lee Nabors 💙 (@rachelnabors)
@bobaekang @acemarke I think it can be done. MDN for instance is largely written by community contributors. Of course, they also are organized by fulltime employees and are often paid on contract.
I hope React/Meta will find the resources to continue investing in their community
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Rachel Lee Nabors 💙 (@rachelnabors)
@bobaekang @acemarke Could also go the Vue route and let a strong community leader lead and delegate the effort. But that would require a level of giving up control and investing in community management from the React team
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Rachel Lee Nabors 💙 (@rachelnabors)
@bobaekang @acemarke This worked really well for https://t.co/2Qb1172lnw. I ran an API docs drive and recruited the community to help. @Simek emerged as a deputy editor for the docs after that. Love the RN dynamic! Would love to see the same model with React!
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Rachel Lee Nabors 💙 (@rachelnabors)
@bobaekang @acemarke @Simek @JSPartyFM You might need to ask a different question first:
Why hasn't anyone been leading?
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