At OSCON last week, Google announced the creation around Kubernetes of the Cloud-Native Computing Foundation. The next day, Jim Zemlin dedicated his keynote to the (recently-renamed) Open Container Initiative, confirming the Linux Foundation's recent shift towards providing Foundations-as-a-Service. Foundations ended up being the talk of the show, with some questioning …
In the early days of OpenStack, we instituted a do-acracy: power to people that do things over people that don't. Code talks: when unsure on the direction to go, the one that came with code basically won. Don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness. Make progress, fix issues if they …
Various governance models exist for free and open source software projects. Most of those happen naturally, some of them are chosen... Which one is the best ? Is there a best ? How could we judge the best ? Like any ecosystem, I'd postulate that F/OSS project communities should have long-term survival …
Yesterday we entered the Icehouse development cycle Feature Freeze. But with the incredible growth of the OpenStack development community (508 different contributors over the last 30 days, including 101 new ones !), I hear a lot of questions about it. I've explained it on various forums in the past, but I …
For companies, there are two ways to develop open source projects. The first one is to keep design and innovation inside your corporate borders, and only accept peripheral contributions. In that case you produce open source software, but everything else resembles traditional software development: you …