by Jordi Cabot | Jan 25, 2022 | Community, Process
There are many strategies to fund open source software development. None of them is a silver bullet. Indeed, OSS sustainability is still a major concern. And WordPress has an original approach to this challenge, called Five for the future. In short, Five for the...
by Noel Carroll | Mar 27, 2019 | Community, Process, research
Open Source software (OSS) has been highly prevalent in both practice and research. Given the value and effectiveness of OSS development to date, practitioners are keen to replicate these practices inside their respective corporations. This application of OSS...
by Jordi Cabot | Jan 4, 2019 | Process, AI
There is no doubt that Artificial Intelligence is going to change the way we develop software. Some go as far as saying that AI will replace software development: software will be written in neural network weights with no human involvement. I don’t know about...
by Jordi Cabot | Jul 10, 2018 | Code, Process, Tool
I’m looking for a tool able to automatically track the time I spend coding. A plus if it detects also the programming language I’m coding in (even if it’s a simple approach based on looking at the file extension instead of something more accurate...
by Martin Monperrus | May 24, 2018 | Code, Process, Tool
Imagine a software development world where humans and bots will interact together on the same code base. Bots would review code written by humans, and humans would review code synthesized by bots. Bots would help humans do mundane tasks such as formatting, and humans...
by Jordi Cabot | Nov 6, 2017 | Process
Have you ever tried to explain to a non-techie how software development works in GitHub (with the concepts of fork, branch, pull request, merge,…)?. Not easy. To be honest, it is not that trivial to understand for a programmer either. But this is what we needed...
