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 …
Since the very beginning of OpenStack we fulfilled our Open Design promise by organizing a developer gathering open to all OpenStack contributors at the beginning of all our development cycles, called the Design Summit. Those events have proven to be an essential part of OpenStack success and growth.
Design Summits …
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 …
StoryBoard is a project I started a few months ago. We have been running into a number of issues with Launchpad (inability to have blueprints spanning multiple code bases, inability to have flexible project group views, inability to use non-Launchpad OpenID for login...), and were investigating replacements. I was tired …