Open Source At Facebook And Beyond - All Things Open 2014

In 2013, Facebook rebooted its open source portfolio and launched a unique suite of internal tools & instrumentation to support hundreds of repos, thousands of engineers, and tens of thousands of contributors. How did we do? And how can we share what we learned with other companies looking to run open source programs at scale?

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1. Open Source at Facebook

   And Beyond
   JAMES PEARCE

   @jamespearce
   

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4. 211 Projects
   10+ MLoC
   118k Followers

   21k Forks
   

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6. USE
   SCALE
   IMPROVE REPLACE
   RELEASE
   

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8. Open source is like 

   the breeze from 

   an open window
   

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9. But…
   

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17. Every repo
    Every commit
    Every pull request
    Every issue
    

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18. [opensource]>  select  

                               name,  followers,  forks,  commits,  issues,  pull_requests  

                               from  github_repos  order  by  created_at  limit  10;

    +-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐+-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐+-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐+-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐+-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐+-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐+  
    |  name                        |  followers  |  forks  |  commits  |  issues  |  pull_requests  |  
    +-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐+-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐+-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐+-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐+-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐+-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐-­‐+  
    |  memcached              |              323  |        53  |          209  |            1  |                          0  |  
    |  three20                  |            7429  |    1521  |        1680  |        200  |                          0  |  
    |  platform                |              146  |        31  |          310  |            2  |                          0  |  
    |  bunny1                    |                43  |        15  |            10  |            0  |                          0  |  
    |  phpembed                |              132  |        26  |            31  |            1  |                          0  |  
    |  codemod                  |              309  |        49  |            13  |            9  |                          3  |  
    |  animation              |                  0  |          0  |              0  |            1  |                          0  |  
    |  scribe                    |            2572  |      469  |          117  |          59  |                        11  |  
    |  firefox-­‐toolbar  |                93  |        50  |          532  |          10  |                          0  |  
    |  cassandra              |              205  |        27  |          189  |            0  |                          0  |  
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20. Average followers per repo

    Average forks per repo
    Average pull-request age

    Average issue age
    External commits
    

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26. Snapshot Upstream Fly the nest Deprecate Reboot
    OPEN
    SOURCE
    PROJECTS
    

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30. Why run an open source program?
    Policies for launching new projects
    Using external open source projects
    Employee projects on their own time
    Licenses, CLAs & other boilerplates
    Interacting with your communities
    Managing large open source portfolios
    Metrics for success
    The open source project lifecycle
    Open source & corporate identities
    What is the source of truth of truth?
    … and more!
    

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31. http://todogroup.org
    

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32. JAMES PEARCE

    @jamespearce
    

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