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How to Be a Good Maintainer, Part 2 — The Challenge of Human Interaction

By Tim Pepper In my previous post, I asked what it means to be a good maintainer on an open source project. I want to follow that up with a closer look at the interpersonal aspects of the job. These require skills that a conventional training in engineering is fairly unlikely to equip you with, Read more...

Introducing Project Flowgate, a Data Integration Hub of Facility Systems and IT Stacks for Enterprise Data Centers

Open Source Team posted June 13, 2019

By Gavin Lu Today, we’re pleased to announce a new open source project, Project Flowgate, which will help enterprises integrate facility systems data and IT data to form a holistic view of their operations. By combining these two disparate data sets into one view, data center managers will be better equipped to optimize operations and Read more...

How to Be a Good Maintainer, Part 1 – Best Practices

Open Source Team posted June 11, 2019

By Tim Pepper What does it take to be a good open source maintainer? I know from personal experience that the skills it requires don’t come naturally to many engineers. But as I’ve worked at being a better maintainer myself, I’ve realized that it’s also a very learnable role. In this first post of two, Read more...

How to Select Project Maintainers for Long-Term Success

Open Source Team posted June 6, 2019

By Alexandre Courouble The sustainability of open source projects often relies on a single person: the maintainer. Maintainers are often the only people with commit access to the source code, meaning they are responsible for the future of the project. For projects with a single maintainer, this could represent an important security issue. As industries Read more...

No Matter What You Call It, Enterprise Software Must Put the Customer First

Dirk Hohndel posted June 4, 2019

Every so often, the open source community gets into an argument about what the software we create should really be called. Recently, for example, I’ve been seeing people using the term “Enterprise Open Source.” In response, I want to make two observations—one that questions the utility of that particular term and a second that suggests Read more...

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How to Be a Good Maintainer, Part 2 — The Challenge of Human Interaction

Introducing Project Flowgate, a Data Integration Hub of Facility Systems and IT Stacks for Enterprise Data Centers

How to Be a Good Maintainer, Part 1 – Best Practices

How to Select Project Maintainers for Long-Term Success

No Matter What You Call It, Enterprise Software Must Put the Customer First

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