Comparing How InnerSourced your Infrastructure is
Just detailing the infrastructure needed within an organization to effectively apply InnerSource would be simplistic. This section aims at listing the questions you need to ask to your infrastructure team to check if that internal and well known infrastructure is able to be part of the InnerSource process.
The goal of this section is to compare the internal infrastructure used within an organization and check how close this is to an ideal InnerSource toolchain. As detail, in the software development process, it is necessary the use of specific tools such as the versioning system, code review process, ticketing system, continuous integration, documentation storage and collaborative platform to share technical decisions.
For each of those, we need to check if they are following the key aspects provided such as openness.
Development Process Infrastructure
| Openness | Transparency | Archivable | Searchable | Monitoring | Access Rights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Versioning | ||||||
| Ticketing system | ||||||
| Code Review | ||||||
| CI | ||||||
| Wiki/Documentation | ||||||
| TODO List | ||||||
| Collaborative notes |
Communication Channels Infrastructure
| Openness | Transparency | Archivable | Searchable | Monitoring | Access Rights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mailing lists/forums | ||||||
| Instant channels | ||||||
| Questions/Answers |
Monitoring Infrastructure
| Openness | Transparency | Archivable | Searchable | Monitoring | Access Rights | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval platform | ||||||
| Enrichment platform | ||||||
| Visualization platform |
Some Examples of Infrastructure
GitHub enterprise. GitLab. In house repositories. Atlasian stack.