Open design at large scale

It’s getting people to agree on something

The real value of Docker is not technology

How active is Docker?

4854 PRs(Oct 2014, sub-projects not included)

4854 PRsTotal Merged Average

days openMedian

days openDocker, inc 2410 1995 (82%) 7.2 1

Community 2444 1615 (66%) 9.4 1

(Oct 2014, sub-projects not included)

• Differences are noticeable but reasonable: initial maintainers are by definition employees. “community” includes the long tail of low-quality patch bombs.

• We want to trend towards zero difference• The median pull request has been open 1 day which is insane!

The Human Stack (c) Damien Duportal

Project maintainers

Open Design API

ContributorsGoogle Red Hat Microsoft Docker,

inc.IBM etc.

DGABadvice

The Human Stack (c) Damien Duportal

Open Design API

ContributorsGoogle Red Hat Microsoft Docker,

inc.IBM etc.

Project maintainers DGABadvice

Project maintainers

daemon.go registry.go

BDFL

DGAB

CONTRIBUTORS

libcontainer/

How do we scale this to 10,000 contributors and dozens of sub-projects?

Proposed improvement: PR 9137

BDFL

chief architect chief operator chief maintainer

operators core maintainersarchitects

subsystem subsystem subsystem subsystem

subsystemsubsystemsubsystemsubsystem

(yes, governance changes happen in PRs)

less importantDGABProject maintainers

9137https://github.com/docker/docker/pull/9137

Please give feedback!

Human organizations are programmable.

Bugs can be fixed, scale bottlenecks removed, inefficient code refactored

We can define a new model for open-source

at large scale

Thank you!