Joining us this week is Rocky Grober, TBD
Highlights:
- Open Source Project Health in QA and Quality
- Escaping the Open Source Discrimination Cycle
- Money in Open Source for Sustainability
- Learning Patterns in Open Source
- Crises in Open Source for Sustaining Projects
- Open Source Foundations Need to Own Sustaining Engineering
Time Tracking
- 1 min 12 sec: Introduction of Guest
- 2 min 48 sec: QA and Quality in Open Source
- Hidden Influencers in OpenStack
- Ecosystem of Connections
- Discrimination against QA in Open Source
- Measurement of Participation by Commits Only
- OpenStack Operators & Product Managers Voices Not Heard
- 9 min 56 sec: How to Escape Current Cycle?
- Having Operators and Customers as Part of Leadership in Community
- Bring “Real-World” to Community Silos
- Turning Code into Projects
- 13 min 18 sec: Open Source Licensing
- Open Source Developers Love New Toys and then Get Bored ~ When Software is Mature and Usable
- Test for Integration not Just Expected Behavior ~ QA does this but Developers need to Engage in Exploratory Testing
- 18 min 30 sec: Learning Patterns
- Mike Kail on Defining Edge Podcast; Better to Iterate and Learn but can become repetitive
- Iteration of Developers Recursively Improve Knowledge however some don’t gain System Understanding
- Deep not Broad is a Mistake; Need to do Both
- g. OpenStack focusing releases on specific parts of Product
- Open Source Throws out All Lessons from Corporate Development which is a Mistake; plenty of good ideas should be used in Open Source
- 24 min 22 sec: Developers Must Adjust to What Customers Need Not What Developers Want
- If no one uses software is it significant?
- Ecosystem around Open Source Projects Provide Support Customers Need
- 27 min 45 sec: Is there a Crisis in Open Source for Sustaining Projects?
- Lots of Types of People Doing Different Jobs in Open Source but Not Enough QA or Operators Taking Part in Projects
- Need to Move Beyond Developers in Open Source
- How Get Open Source Users to Participate via Funding or Staff for Software Maintenance?
- What will Drive this to Happen? ROI
- 31 min 50 sec: How Solve this Problem?
- Foundations Need to Support Sustaining Engineering
- Profit Motive Missing from Open Source is a Challenge
- Gamification on Open Source Projects
- Bug Priority based on Customer Need not Developer Interest
- 38 min 10 sec: Wrap-Up