Oct 22, 2020 1:18 PM PT
Red Hat, a major provider of open source solutions, has never had a comprehensive document guiding associate participation in open source projects, until now.
In an ongoing oversight, the company had only a few related processes written down. Much of how the company and its workers interacted with open source contribution was known only in long-standing, widely understood, but undocumented company practice.
Perhaps under the influence of its recent purchase by IBM, Red Hat recently announced the external publication of its open-source participation guidelines. The company released the guidelines on GitHub under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Red Hat officials hope its guidelines will spur other organizations to consider how they approach open source, either by adopting these or similar guidelines for the benefit of their own employees.
Oct 22, 2020 1:18 PM PT
Red Hat, a major provider of open source solutions, has never had a comprehensive document guiding associate participation in open source projects, until now.
In an ongoing oversight, the company had only a few related processes written down. Much of how the company and its workers interacted with open source contribution was known only in long-standing, widely understood, but undocumented company practice.
Perhaps under the influence of its recent purchase by IBM, Red Hat recently announced the external publication of its open-source participation guidelines. The company released the guidelines on GitHub under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Red Hat officials hope its guidelines will spur other organizations to consider how they approach open source, either by adopting these or similar guidelines for the benefit of their own employees.