What to Share, When, and Where - Creating a Distributed and Efficient Contribution Process While Balancing Value and Risk
Talkat OSPOCon @ Open Source Summit Europe 2022 · on Friday, 2022-09-16· at 13:55· EcoCem Room (Level 2), Convention Centre Dublin, Spencer Dock, N Wall Quay, North Wall Dublin 1, D01 T1·
summary
Presents a deployable framework from interviews and case studies that maps 12 contribution request types to objectives and risks, and defines a stepwise process: contribution form + basic training, contribution officer triage, technical review, and an open source review board for medium/major cases, with whitelisted projects fast-tracked. Reports a surprising heuristic that true “secret sauce” is only ~10–20% of code. Paper and slides are open access and the method is validated by a live implementation.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 1:25What Is the Contribution Strategy
- 1:50Contribution Strategies
- 6:44Objectives and Complexities
- 7:49Contribution Request
- 8:52Increasing Transparency
- 9:39Supply-Centric Objectives
- 11:45Control Centric Complexities
- 13:23Commoditization
- 17:57Setting Up Your Contribution Strategy
- 19:34Contribution Officer
- 23:34General Notes
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