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title: "Pixelfed team member"
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summary: "After making a masterpost of bugs and issues, I turned Pixelfed from a one-person project into a team effort."
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author: "Abdullah Tarawneh"
date: "2019-01-06"
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start: "Jan 2019"
end: "current"
at: "Pixelfed"
position: "Product/Project Manager"
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tags: ["pixelfed", "project management", "product management", "github issues", "documentation"]
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category: "Work"
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cover: "/images/cover/pixelfed.jpg"
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## Overview
## Being invited to the team
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In June 2018, I made a [masterpost issue ](https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/73 ) including every bug and missing feature from the initial beta release, with a big checklist and organized into areas of interest.
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{{< img src = "masterpost.jpg" alt = "Masterpost of missing functionality and issues from the beta launch" > }}
Additionally, I reported many bugs and contributed some fixes for some months.
dansup decided to invite me to join the Pixelfed organization on Github on January 6, 2019.
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## Responsibilities
### Issue triage
I implemented the current issue tagging system.
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Issues are assigned tags by the domain they inhabit, a Milestone by rough version target, and a Project by which feature they pertain to.
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### Design consultancy
dansup does a lot of experimenting with building out mock features, and I'm there to tell him which ones are good ideas and which ones are bad ideas.
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> i don't trust anyone as much as you to shape the direction of the project.
>
> -- dansup, Pixelfed developer
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### Release planning
0.x betas each usually focus on one feature and related development around it. When the focus changes, a new 0.x beta will be tagged. We have a few more betas left, for circles, and for polish. If it weren't for me, dansup would have tagged 1.0 already and media attention would have been lackluster.
