Michael Graf & Harish B (SAP) at ISC.S11 -  The Unexpected Path of Applying InnerSource Patterns
Channel: InnerSource Commons
Date: 29/09/2020

We recently applied the Project Portal pattern at SAP to ease discovery of InnerSource projects for our internal community. In this session, we will share our experiences on applying InnerSourceCommons patterns and the unexpected synergies along the way. And we will show the new portal, of course!
When we started applying the pattern we spotted some new challenges: (a) How can we efficiently crawl InnerSource projects from various sources and merge them into one source? Projects may be located in GitHub Enterprise, Git/Gerrit, or ABAP systems, (b) In which order shall we present the results? Is there a way to show the most active and promising projects to the community first? How can we automatically measure and track the activity of an InnerSource project?, (c) Which metadata should be provided by project owners to list skills and needs for potential contributors? How can they be presented in the Project Portal?
We solved them the InnerSource way: With creative collaboration across organizational borders and by sharing our experiences with the InnerSourceCommons community. We ended up with two new InnerSource projects and a backlog of new ideas. As a side-project we even drafted a new pattern to rank InnerSource projects - the InnerSource Activity Score.

This presentation was shown at InnerSource Commons Fall 2020 Virtual Summit. Join the community at www.innersourcecommons.org.