Comparing How Inner-Sourced Your Infra Is

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.