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Open Design at large scale by Solomon Hykes
This document discusses Docker's open design and governance at large scales of contributors. It notes that Docker had over 4,800 pull requests in October 2014, most of which were merged within a day. It proposes a new governance structure with differentiated roles like chief architect, operators, and maintainers to scale Docker's open source development to tens of thousands of contributors and multiple sub-projects. This model aims to programmatically address issues like bottlenecks and inefficiencies that can arise at large scales.
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- 1. Open design atlarge scale
- 2. The real valueof Docker is not technology It’s getting people to agree on something
- 3. How active is Docker?
- 4. 4854 PRs (Oct2014, sub-projects not included)
- 5. 4854 PRs (Oct2014, sub-projects not included) Total Merged Average days open Median days open Docker, inc 2410 1995 (82%) 7.2 1 Community 2444 1615 (66%) 9.4 1 • Differences are noticeable but reasonable: initial maintainers are by definition employees. “community” includes the long tail of low-quality patch bombs. • We want to trend towards zero difference • The median pull request has been open 1 day which is insane!
- 6. The Human Stack(c) Damien Duportal Contributors Google Red Hat Microsoft Docker, IBM inc. etc. Open Design API Project maintainers DGAB advice
- 7. The Human Stack(c) Damien Duportal Contributors Google Red Hat Microsoft Docker, IBM inc. etc. Open Design API Project maintainers DGAB advice
- 8. CONTRIBUTORS Project maintainers BDFL DGAB daemon.go registry.go libcontainer/
- 9. How do wescale this to 10,000 contributors and dozens of sub-projects?
- 10. Proposed improvement: PR9137 (yes, governance changes happen in PRs) Project maintainers DGAB BDFL less important chief architect chief operator chief maintainer architects operators core maintainers subsystem subsystem subsystem subsystem subsystem subsystem subsystem subsystem
- 11. 9137 https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/9137 Pleasegive feedback!
- 12. Human organizations areprogrammable. Bugs can be fixed, scale bottlenecks removed, inefficient code refactored
- 13. We can definea new model for open-source at large scale
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