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InnerSource @ Zalando | innersource-howto

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Review the linked Zalando InnerSource how-to, source repository, and engineering references first. Compare them with the contribution structure of InnerSourcePatterns; done would require a clearly scoped decision about what material belongs here and the corresponding documentation work identified.

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Description

:book: Type - Content Work :tiger2: patterns-in-the-wild

Zalando has published some tips about InnerSource on this public page:
https://opensource.zalando.com/docs/resources/innersource-howto/ (see source)

There are further mentions of InnerSource at Zalando from as early as 2016 here:

Dominant language
HTML
Stars
853
Forks
206
Avg merge
1d 23h
Merged PRs (30d)
2

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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