Inner sourcing has been around for years and is a method used by several organizations to help create better documentation of code development.
Microsoft is taking open source very seriously these days. Earlier, we have heard about the company open-sourcing its technologies and buying open-source companies.
Now, Microsoft will be formally adopting open-source development methodologies inside the company by going ‘Inner Source’, according to a report by ZDNet.
Inner sourcing has been around for years and is a method used by several organizations to help create better documentation of code development.
It is about taking open-source development practices and applying them inside a single organization. There’s an InnerSource Commons Community with more than 70 members, the report added.
New Inner Source Initiative
Ross Gardler, an Executive Vice President at The Apache Software Foundation and Microsoft Principal Program Manager on Azure, in a Twitter post said that Microsoft’s Director of Accessibility for the Cloud and Enterprise division, Gianlugo Rabellino, would be heading up the new Inner Source Initiative.
Rabellino was part of the founding team of Microsoft Open Technologies, the open source subsidiary of Microsoft before he took the Accessibility role in 2016.
