Re:Happy 10th Birthday, Sidekiq
by uptime on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:40AM
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This is a great summary of a positive outcome for a hybrid OSS project. I took a look at the other blog posts - has anyone seen writing from the author that covers his experience supporting the pro and enterprise versions? I imagine that would be hard to do alone!
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It’s worked out so far. I knew it would be tough to scale up myself as support so I set down as couple of policies:
1. Do it in public if possible via GitHub issues so others can also answer and search in the future.
2. Don’t allow more than N questions per year per customer. A few have drowned me with requests. Nope, you are buying a product, not a trainer or teacher. Read the docs, watch the videos.
3. Pour everything I know into the wiki docs. Note each wiki page will talk about semantics, edge cases, etc. That’s all there to get ahead of the support inquiries.
Re:Happy 10th Birthday, Sidekiq
by aaronmiler on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @12:49PM
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#3 is one of my favorite things about Sidekiq. Anything I'm trying to do with Sidekiq, I check the wiki first, and it's usually there. Any time I've introduced the library to a team, the docs and wiki are always my recommendation for answering questions. Even Pro/Ent features are covered there, which is so much nicer than having the docs hidden behind a login/paywall.
Thanks for the hard work you've poured into them Mike!