Industry Best Practices for Open Source Governance and Component Reuse
Harutyunyan N, Riehle D (2019)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Original article
Publication year: 2019
Publisher: ACM
City/Town: New York, NY, USA
Pages Range: 21:1--21:14
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs
Event location: Irsee
URI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3361149.3361170
Abstract
Corporate use of open source in software products is on the rise. While this brings a number of technological and business benefits to companies, it also comes with potential legal and financial risks caused by license non-compliance and ungoverned use of open source components. Companies address these threats with free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) governance - internal guidelines and processes for using open source components in products. An essential aspect of FLOSS governance is component reuse and component repository, which enable efficient governance for the previously used components by the company’s developers. In our study, we aimed to identify the current industry best practices for FLOSS governance and component reuse. We conducted 15 expert interviews in companies with high governance maturity, analyzed these interviews and derived 19 best practices cast in the pattern format of context-problem-solution. The format was inspired by design patterns and enables higher applicability of our research results by practitioners. The 19 best practices form a handbook on FLOSS governance and component reuse that also includes workflows connecting the individual practices into process templates.
Authors with CRIS profile
Nikolay Harutyunyan
Professur für Open Source Software
Dirk Riehle
Professur für Open Source Software
How to cite
APA:
Harutyunyan, N., & Riehle, D. (2019). Industry Best Practices for Open Source Governance and Component Reuse. In Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (pp. 21:1--21:14). Irsee, DE: New York, NY, USA: ACM.
MLA:
Harutyunyan, Nikolay, and Dirk Riehle. "Industry Best Practices for Open Source Governance and Component Reuse." Proceedings of the 24th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, EuroPLoP'19, Irsee New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2019. 21:1--21:14.
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