On sharing ideas & sharing code

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On Sharing Ideas in CodeKohsuke Kawaguchi / CTO / CloudBees, [email protected] / @kohsukekawa

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• A chosen few

Committers


Open Commit Policy


Is open commit policy a relic before GitHub?

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Are pull requestseasy enough to

substitute a commit access?



What doesn’t happen

• Fringe use cases• Trying conflicting ideas


You are the gate keeper

!YOU


YOU


But wait, this is not just OSS!


Inside a business…

✓ everyone has commit access

✓ using distributed VCS

✓ using GitHub


Do people have to “argue with you”?

?

...


I want to talk to my audience in code

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What you want

• Get out of their way• Let people innovate

and fail fast

YOU


Solution

modularity+

extensibility

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The solution


The solution


The solution


“But that’s over-engineering”

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How do you run it?


Friction to express ideas

in code affects scalability of

engineering org


Once the formula is established…


My Wish List

• Share your idea in code, not in English• Get out of people’s way

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On sharing ideas & sharing code