September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
187 pages
4h 46m
English
Content preview from Adopting InnerSource
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Glossary
- Air cover
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Refers to executive management support for a potentially vulnerable change initiative, such as an InnerSource program. Having support at the highest level helps to get things done and to ensure that mid-level managers cannot block an initiative.
- Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
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An American nonprofit organization that supports Apache Open Source software projects, including the Apache HTTPd web server. Founded in 1999, the ASF is home to the world’s largest single-license Open Source software repository with over 350 projects and more than 5,000 contributors. The Apache Way is a documented method for transparent peer-based collaborative software development upon which InnerSource is based (see Chapter 2).
- Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL)
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The term BDFL is commonly used in Open Source projects with a single leader, who is often (but not necessarily) its original creator. The term first appeared in 1995 referring to Python’s creator Guido van Rossum. A BDFL oversees a project and has the final say in key decisions related to a project’s future development direction. Not all Open Source projects have BDFLs.
- BIOS
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BIOS stands for Bosch Internal Open Source, which is the name for Bosch’s first InnerSource program. Starting in 2009, the BIOS program was a three-year experiment (later extended by an additional three years) to evaluate the utility of Open Source development practices for corporate software development. BIOS evolved into Bosch’s Social Coding ...