Community Summit - Bertrand Delacrétaz

1. open
development
in the
enterprise
Bertrand Delacrétaz
@bdelacretaz, grep.codeconsult.ch
Senior R&D Developer, Adobe Basel
Apache Software Foundation Member and Director
Open World Forum, Paris, October 2013
slides revision 2013-09-27

2. what
is open development?
(it’s like open source)

3. open
everybody gets the same information
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4. meritocratic
nobody knows you’re a dog
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5. sustainable
conflict resolution rules
self-service archives
exposure promotes quality
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6. how
to implement open development?

7. “centralized open collaboration bus”
discussions,
decisions,
votes:
mailing lists
& archives
tasks:
issue tracker
code: shared
code repository
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8. Core Rules
Discuss + decide
on the mailing list
o s
m
Only work on things backed by an issue
in the tracker.
s
o
s
o
Put everything in the source code control system,
early and often.
s
If it's important,
it needs a permanent URL.

9. Open development?
o
s
m
Just say no to 1-1 email and
boring status meetings!