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 …
Over the last 3 years, the technical governance of the OpenStack open source project evolved a lot, and most recently last Tuesday. As an elected member of that governance body since April 2011, I witnessed that evolution from within and helped in drafting the various models over time. Now seems …
The beginning of a new release cycle is as good as any moment to question why we actually go through the hassle of producing OpenStack releases. Twice per year, on a precise date we announce 6 months in advance, we bless and publish source code tarballs of the various integrated …
As comparing OpenStack with Linux becomes an increasingly popular exercise, it's only natural that people and press articles start to ask where the Linus Torvalds of OpenStack is, or who the Linus Torvalds of OpenStack should be. This assumes that technical leaders could somehow be appointed in OpenStack. This assumes …
I've been asked multiple times why open source project management does not fully adopt agile methodologies, which are so great. Or what are the main differences between the two.
So first of all, I'd like to say that I think Agile methodologies are great. Their …