Developers! Y U No Open Source Ur Code?

DEVELOPERS! Y U No Open Source Ur Code? http://ragecomics.memebase.com/Tuesday, 1 November 11

SOMETHING ABOUT ME Craig Marvelley Developer @ Box UK @craigmarvelley boxuk.com http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/jimmiehomeschoolmom/ http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/catatronic/Tuesday, 1 November 11

What is open source software? http://ragecomics.memebase.com/Tuesday, 1 November 11

Hands up if you use open source software http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/cheesy42/Tuesday, 1 November 11

Hands up if your company uses open source software http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/cheesy42/Tuesday, 1 November 11

Hands up if you release open source software http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/cheesy42/Tuesday, 1 November 11

Hands up if your company releases open source software http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/cheesy42/Tuesday, 1 November 11

A recent survey of 300 companies found: Using Open Source Software Don’t intend to use it Experimenting with it 28% 50% 22% Source: Accenture (2010): http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5045Tuesday, 1 November 11

A recent survey of 300 companies found: Willing to contribute software back to the community Unwilling to contribute 29% 71% Source: Accenture (2010): http://newsroom.accenture.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=5045Tuesday, 1 November 11

OPEN SOURCE AT BOX UK • Utilised in many of our products • Particularly the Amaxus ® Content Management System • Amaxus is mainly written in PHP • Version 3 (2002): ~1,439,295 lines of PHP, 3% open source • Version 4 (2008): ~1,474,994 lines of PHP. ~81% open sourceTuesday, 1 November 11

Avoid reinventing the wheel http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/rvignes/Tuesday, 1 November 11

Quality is paramount http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/zigdon/Tuesday, 1 November 11

Make sure it’s accessible http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/potatojunkie/Tuesday, 1 November 11

Check the license suits the usage http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/ecastro/Tuesday, 1 November 11

THE TURNING POINTTuesday, 1 November 11

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OBSCURA • PHP component to perform thumbnailing • Written for PHP 5.3 - namespaces, autoloading, fully unit tested • Integrated back into Amaxus • Could we do another one?Tuesday, 1 November 11

BOXUK-DI • Amaxus has an annotation-based dependency injection container • Uses the Addendum library to parse doc-blocks • We refactored Amaxus to extract the DI code • Existing unit tests made sure we didn’t break anything • We now had two libraries on our handsTuesday, 1 November 11

“What if we open sourced them?” http://ragecomics.memebase.com/Tuesday, 1 November 11

PRECEDENT • Zend • Gradwell • Sensio Labs • openSky • Liip AG • knpLabsTuesday, 1 November 11

GOING OPEN-SOURCE • Hosted the libraries on a company github account • Redesigned our ‘labs’ page on boxuk.com • Authored content for the website to announce and document the libraries • Tweeted about it from the company accountTuesday, 1 November 11

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Feedback for ObscuraTuesday, 1 November 11

Feedback for boxuk-diTuesday, 1 November 11

“Lets do some more!” http://ragecomics.memebase.com/Tuesday, 1 November 11

BOXUK-ROUTING • Refactored and extracted the routing system from Amaxus • Slightly different to other routing components • Decreased coupling • Improved code quality • Improved test coverageTuesday, 1 November 11

DESCRIBR • Component to extract metadata from any ﬁle • Wraps php-reader, adding a plugin architecture • Encourages others to contribute plugins and functionality • First library to be used outside AmaxusTuesday, 1 November 11

Bringing it all together http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/pinksherbet/Tuesday, 1 November 11

CODING STANDARDS • We had a deﬁned coding standard • It was only written down; no way to enforce it • Enter PHPCodesniffer • We wrote a set of sniffs to check code conformed to our standard • Integrated it into our Continuous Integration process • Open sourced the sniffs on GithubTuesday, 1 November 11

DEPLOYMENT • We started using the libraries in live projects • Git isn’t ideal at dependency management • Looked into using PEAR as a deployment mechanism • Wasn’t straightforward to begin with - documentation lacking • Eventually successful - and it was worth itTuesday, 1 November 11

The Future http://www.ﬂickr.com/photos/alejandroamador/Tuesday, 1 November 11

MORE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE • Continue to release PHP components • Perhaps contribute to the Symfony CMF project • Release code for other languages?Tuesday, 1 November 11

SUMMING UP Thanks to our open source experiment: • We have improved our code quality • Our website has more content • We have an enforced coding • The company has increased standard visibility • We have a PEAR channel • Our developers can work on diverse, contained projects that • We have experience using Git make a difference and GithubTuesday, 1 November 11

LESSONS LEARNED • Remember YAGNI - You Ain’t Gonna Need It • If refactoring existing code for release, choose wisely • Use the right tools for the jobTuesday, 1 November 11

THANKS FOR LISTENING! @craigmarvelley http://github.com/boxuk http://joind.in/talk/view/3810Tuesday, 1 November 11

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