[HN Gopher] Inner Source Commons
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       Inner Source Commons
        
       Author : softwaredoug
       Score  : 14 points
       Date   : 2023-07-08 15:26 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (innersourcecommons.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (innersourcecommons.org)
        
       | mistrial9 wrote:
       | so this is "shots across the bow" for the Enterprise push to
       | disembowel Libre software?
        
       | vrnvu wrote:
       | My company, Adevinta, adopted this last year. As you can imagine,
       | some higher-ups pushed this idea as an initiative to improve our
       | efficiency as a company. Let's improve our tech culture! We are
       | going to benefit from less code duplication, more collaboration
       | between teams, and we are going to build reusable software across
       | teams.
       | 
       | What do you think happened after one year of pushing this idea
       | down our throats? Exactly. Nothing. Despite months of documenting
       | the initiative, organizing workshops and brainstorming sessions,
       | and managers pushing engineers to make pull requests to other
       | teams' codebases, no progress was made.
       | 
       | The sad thing is that the higher-ups and managers that wasted our
       | time are not going to hold any accountability or responsibility
       | for the decision... Like it usually happens in big companies.
        
         | klysm wrote:
         | I avoid shared code. It makes changing it more than twice as
         | hard
        
       | Nullabillity wrote:
       | Wow, this site reads like an engineering-focused clone of
       | https://web.archive.org/web/20050131093151/http://www.mintru....
        
       | ta988 wrote:
       | So is it about trying to mimic what the free software devs do and
       | hope that it will provide the same outcome? Sounds like dressing
       | like your favorite rock star to try to play guitar better.
        
       | fuzzy2 wrote:
       | Haha, Inner Source. I see this at a particular client of ours.
       | They use it as a way for teams to dodge change/bugfix requests.
       | They say "oh yeah just create a pull request" and then simply not
       | review it if you actually dare. The non-hostile take is of course
       | if you're too busy to consider the change request you are also
       | too busy to review the pull request. Not sure if working on PRs
       | is incentivized at all.
        
       | zabzonk wrote:
       | > InnerSource Commons is the world's largest community of
       | InnerSource practitioners
       | 
       | and how big is that? five? ten?
       | 
       | this is a zero-content advert.
        
         | richbell wrote:
         | It's pretty popular amongst larger enterprises and financial
         | institutions.
        
           | pyrale wrote:
           | I guess the practice is common (I have worked in such
           | contexts in the past - no issue with the idea, although you'd
           | be hard pressed to find a manager that understood the need
           | for maintainer time, or maintainers in general in products).
           | 
           | However, the linked site is extremely misleading. I had to
           | click 3 links and watch a video just to make sure what the
           | website was about, and in the end I was surprised it's not
           | some kind of scam to sell consulting. I'm still not convinced
           | tbh.
        
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