How Facebook does Open Source at Scale

This talks discusses why Facebook cares about Open Source and how we're doing. I walk through the how, the challenges faced, and approaches to solving them. Our journey is 1% finished but we still have some initial best practices to share.

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1. How Facebook does Open Source at Scale CodeConf Nashville, 2015 Christine Abernathy @abernathyca
3. USE @ SCALE IMPROVE REPLACE RELEASE
4. 100% of our projects are used in production
5. Open & Connected
6. ParseReact Stetho Fresco ComponentKit Shimmer Device Year Class React Native PathPicker Network Connection Class ATC Nuclide ThreatExchange Parse IoT
7. 266 repos 231k stars
 37k forks ! ⋆ #
10. Pre-launch
11. GitHub Internal
12. GitHub Internal vs
13. •Internal -> GitHub sync •Proper GitHub attribution •Scrub commit message •Continuous imports GitHub Internal
14. #Task
16. Launch
17. Post-launch
26. •Bi-annual comprehensive projects audit •Weekly script to flag ownerless projects
27. • Over communicate • Advocate GitHub as the source of truth • Set post-launch support expectations • Ensure projects are actively maintained • Show appreciation to your contributors Best Practices
30. CHRISTINE ABERNATHY
 @abernathyca