How China's search company Baidu adopted InnerSource
Open source has been very popular in China in recent years, but InnerSource is still new. Baidu, the Chinese search engine company, began to adopt InnerSource two years ago. Tan Zhongyi leads this project, and he details how this happened and the challenges the company faced and overcame.
Talk Title | How China's search company Baidu adopted InnerSource |
Speakers | Tan Zhongyi (Baidu) |
Conference | O’Reilly Open Source Software Conference |
Conf Tag | Fueling innovative software |
Location | Portland, Oregon |
Date | July 15-18, 2019 |
URL | Talk Page |
Slides | Talk Slides |
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Open source has become more popular in China in recent years. Chinese engineers dived into the open source world and began to contribute to open source communities, but InnerSource is still new to China. Baidu, the Chinese search engine company, began to adopt InnerSource two years ago. As the leader of this project, Tan Zhongyi details how this happened and what challenges Baidu faced and overcame. Baidu needed to set policies, define processes, and enable tools to support InnerSource, but most important, it needed to cultivate an open source culture. Now, many projects inside Baidu have been adopting InnerSource. Some of them have matured and even donated to the Open Source Foundation; for example, brpc has been an Apache incubator project.