--- title: "Zed Guild: What We Built, What We Learned — Zed's Blog" url: https://daily.dev/posts/zed-guild-what-we-built-what-we-learned-zed-s-blog-yofpmqrd5 source_url: https://zed.dev/blog/zed-guild-retrospective type: article source: "Zed" published: 2026-06-17T13:39:07.903Z updated: 2026-06-17T16:20:16.718Z tags: ["open-source", "devtools", "community", "rust", "zed"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 53 comments: 6 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Zed Guild: What We Built, What We Learned — Zed's Blog **[Zed](https://daily.dev/sources/zed)** · 7 min read · 53 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary Zed ran its first Guild cohort, a 12-week structured contributor program where roughly 75 developers were selected from hundreds of applicants. The program had three tracks: Repro Specialist (issue triage), Bug Basher (code fixes), and Feature Shipper (advanced features). By the end, 33 active contributors merged 148 pull requests into Zed's Rust codebase. Key lessons learned include keeping cohorts small to build real relationships, avoiding bottlenecks in issue assignment, and investing in group rituals like demo days. Cohort 2 will feature tighter groups organized around specific codebase areas with more collaborative structures. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@kkurko** · 1 upvotes > What Zed team is doing in terms of building a product and building a community is amazing! **@khauma** · 1 upvotes > You love to see it! **@fabianletsch** · 1 upvotes > Please tell me about any other open source project that is this cool! Wow! **@petecapecod** · 0 upvotes > nice this sounds like a great program, love to see them bringing more people into open source. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Hiring at Zed: Building in real time — Zed's Blog](https://daily.dev/posts/hiring-at-zed-building-in-real-time-zed-s-blog-xubccb8rk) · Zed · 5 upvotes · 0 comments - [Hired Through GitHub: Part 1 — Zed's Blog](https://daily.dev/posts/hired-through-github-part-1-zed-s-blog-y3gqpjadz) · Zed · 73 upvotes · 0 comments - [Hired Through GitHub: Part 2 — Zed's Blog](https://daily.dev/posts/hired-through-github-part-2-zed-s-blog-9w2lmwg1j) · Zed · 38 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#community](https://daily.dev/tags/community), [#rust](https://daily.dev/tags/rust), [#zed](https://daily.dev/tags/zed) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/zed-guild-what-we-built-what-we-learned-zed-s-blog-yofpmqrd5)