The governance model and maturity levels
Open source is embedded into nearly every software produced today through direct or indirect means.
We now take a deeper plunge into CD and cloud technologies, which have enabled several modern software practices. Many popular areas such as containers, service meshes, microservices, immutable infrastructure, and declarative APIs are getting contributions from open source communities now more than ever. There are some focused organizations that have helped the community to broaden the impact by providing stewardship to the OSS projects.
Stewardship to the OSS projects
We will highlight a few such organization models and associated organizations with a focus on their efforts to grow the CD in the cloud open source ecosystem and provide guidance on the governance of these software projects in general:
- Individual companies or industry consortiums: Big companies often choose to distribute software under the terms of an open source...