Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Open Source at Docker, Part 1: The People [feedly]



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Open Source at Docker, Part 1: The People
// Docker Blog

The Docker open source project is among the most successful in recent history by every possible metric: number of contributors, GitHub stars, commit frequency, etc. Managing an open source project at that scale and preserving a healthy community doesn't come without challenges.

This post is the first of a 3-part series on how we deal with those challenges on the Docker Engine project, starting with the most important aspect of all: the people.

 

Open Source Culture

Do you know what Docker's IPv6 support, user namespaces, or the recently added docker update command have in common? They have been contributed by members of community.

There are as many open source cultures as there are open source projects, and the spectrum is extremely wide ranging from "projects with open code", to projects that foster and encourage outside participation.

One of the things that I love the most about the Docker project is how much effort maintainers put into creating a welcoming environment. One part of it is defining the right processes supported by the right tooling (more on that in the upcoming posts in this series), but far more importantly, this is about being helpful, positive, and supportive.

For every pull request, Docker maintainers will work their best to "reach a yes". Of course we don't merge everything we receive, but we do merge 80% of pull requests! And an important reason for that is because whether you are unfamiliar with git, with Go, or with Docker itself, maintainers will help you get to the point where we can push the green button. We know how intimidating it can be as a first time contributor to open source because we have all been there: we hope we can encourage more people to become open source citizens this way, whether on our projects or on others.

 

The Shape of the Community

It won't come as a surprise to anyone that a fast-growing open source project with that much attention from the industry naturally attracts commercial interests, and that the Docker project is backed by the Docker Inc company. In that context, culture and respect are essential to preserve a healthy community and a welcoming environment for professionals and hobbyists alike.

And the numbers are here to tell! In the past year, 58% of pull requests submitted to the Docker Engine were authored by people who are neither maintainers nor Docker employees, 12% by maintainers working for other companies, and 30% by Docker employees themselves.

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Putting It All Together

This is how the Docker Engine is made:

 

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So really the project would be nothing without its community, and although the 1,962 people who contributed to the project so far would deserve their picture on this post, we can start by giving a shout-out the some of our outstanding maintainers, past and present:

 

Lehmann

Aaron Lehmann
@aaronlehmann

Morozov

Alexander Morozov
@LK4D4

calavera

David Calavera
@calavera

Venugopal

Madhu Venugopal
@mavenugo

Jitang

Lei Jitang
@coolljt0725

Bauer

Morgan Bauer
@MHBauer

Goff

Brian Goff
@cpuguy83

Anthony

Mary Anthony
@moxiegirl

crosby

Michael Crosby
@crosbymichael

Murdaca

Antonio Murdaca
@runcom

McGowan

Derek McGowan
@dmcgowan

Day

Stephen Day
@stevvooe

Nephin

Daniel Nephin
@dnephin

Van Stijn

Sebastiaan Van Stijn
@thaJeztah

Davis

Doug Davis
@duglin

Gravi

Tianon Gravi
@tianon

Hollensbe

Erik Hollensbe
@erikh

Vass

Tibor Vass
@tiborvass

Windisch

Eric Windisch
@ewindisch

Windisch

Tonis Tiigi
@tonistiigi

Estes

Phil Estes
@estesp

Jack

Uncle Jack
@unclejack

Porterie

Arnaud Porterie
@icecrime

Batts

Vincent Batts
@vbatts

Frazelle

Jessie Frazelle
@jfrazelle

Demeester

Vincent Demeester
@vdemeester

Howard

John Howard
@jhowardmsft

Vieux

Victor Vieux
@vieux

Cormack

Justin Cormack
@justincormack

Kannan

Vish Kannan
@vishh


 

Even with the most amazing maintainers, some amount of process is required to keep things going smoothly given this huge activity, and this is what the next post in this series will be focusing on. In the meantime, if you want to join the fun, check out one of our numerous repositories, read our contributing guides, or come chat on IRC Freenode #docker-dev!


Big thank you to the awesome #Docker maintainers for supporting the #opensource project
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