Is your organization looking to build out an open source program? If so, you’re not alone, but not every organization has a holistic sense of the available tools that can help create a healthy program. A simple charter document and a few spreadsheets for tracking projects won’t cut it anymore in managing a truly robust open source program. That’s where the new Tools for Managing Open Source Programs guide comes in. It can help any organization launch and maintain a thriving open source program.
“If you have more than 100 code repositories or 100 people that you’re trying to manage, you really can’t have someone doing it manually with spreadsheets anymore,” notes Jeff McAffer, Director of the Open Source Programs Office at Microsoft, in the guide. “Obviously, people still do it that way. But it starts to become ad-hoc and laborious. That’s where tools come into play. They allow you to scale.”
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