Last year, a developer suggested we get involved in contributing to open source. It’s a good way of getting our company name out there and also it gives back to the community – given that we are using many open source libraries ourselves.
Recently, a developer had used an open source library, but needed to make a small change to it. He had created a “fork” which meant he had the code showing up in his GitHub profile. An audit report runs on our profiles and it was flagged up for investigation because the repository had “public” visibility. The intent of the report is just for someone to check we don’t have our proprietary code exposed publicly.
There was some discussion, with the end result being the developer was made to remove the code. He cited “they didn’t want my name being traced back to the business”.
I wish we would just commit to ideas. Are we Open Source-friendly, or not?
Stranger Coding Tings 