Achievement Unlocked: Open Source Contribution

I did it. My Emacs package, org-hyperscheduler, is now live on MELPA, here.

I’m overjoyed. It’s a big deal for me, because I’ve been a long time beneficiary of open source software and I’m glad to finally be able to give back. It’s the first piece of software that I started out writing for myself and got to a state where it’s useable for other folks.

Once version 1 was stable, I submitted a pull request to MELPA. Prior to that I ran through their checklist. The checklist ensures that style guides are followed, deployment recipe works correctly, etc. Even though I went through the checklist twice, I still managed to miss a couple of things. The reviewer kindly pointed it out:

A few more rounds of back and forth and:

As of July 25, MELPA shows 37 downloads. There are 85 stars on github (and 5 forks):

There is an ocassional issue being submitted via GitHub, so the package is being used.

As a software engineer this makes me very happy.