I spent the period from July to September 2018 volunteering as the Kubernetes 1.12 release lead. As this stint comes to a close, I’m pausing to reflect on the experience. A first observation relates to an aspect of open source commonly understood today: open source projects move fast! The Kubernetes 1.12 release demonstrates that velocity. Read more...
By Stephen McPolin and Venil Noronha When Istio 1.0 was released a couple of months ago, TechCrunch called it “probably one of the most important new open source projects out there right now.” It’s not perfect (more on that in part two of this series), but the release does mark a significant stage in the development Read more...
By Alexandre Courouble and John Hawley Previously, we’ve explored the challenge of measuring progress in open source projects and looked forward to the recent CHAOSScon meeting, held right before the North American Open Source Summit (OSS). CHAOSS, for those who may not know, is the Community Health Analytics Open Source Software project. August’s CHAOSScon marked Read more...
By Venil Noronha I joined the Open Source Technology Center (OSTC) in June after finishing graduate school at USC, and I’m delighted to note that I’ve just had my first open source project as a VMware employee approved for release: Wavefront by VMware Adapter for Istio. This wasn’t my first opportunity to send a project Read more...
By Aida Rivas I just returned from Open Source Summit in Vancouver, Canada, which brings developers, community and business leaders, software architects and sysadmins from across the globe together to engage in a wide range of topics such as emerging technologies, open source leadership, program office management and diversity and empowerment. The diversity and empowerment Read more...
