Balancing Yin (Community) And Yang (Company) In OSS
Talkat KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2022 · on Wednesday, 2022-10-26· at 16:30· Ambassador Ballroom (Room 360)·
summary
Kubernetes shows shrinking reviewer capacity and slower merges: PR reviews drop -24% PR reviews, monthly commits fall 32% 2020, 45% 2021, 41% 2022, and the project has ~70,000 contributors with 10,000 new authors a year but fewer approvers. Concrete prescriptions include hiring senior upstream engineers, allocating a set percent of time to upstream work, formal mentorship to grow reviewers, a product-to-upstream liaison role, measuring customer impact to justify investment, and avoiding parallel forks by improving extensibility and enablement.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Balancing community and company
- 1:50Open source collaboration
- 3:58Projects versus products
- 6:08Declining contributions impact
- 10:02Convincing leadership to invest
- 13:34Kubernetes contributions data
- 16:44Invisible work in open source
- 20:18Mentorship for burnout
- 22:02Sustainable OSS models
- 24:30Leadership in advocacy
- 27:19Bridging community and product
- 29:51Upstream charter and goals
- 32:00Trust in open source
- 33:45Managers at community events
- 34:28Collaboration principles
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