Standards As Code - How The Open Group is Modernizing their Community
summary
Open Group migrates formal standards from emailed Word files to a Git workflow that uses GitLab issues and merge requests, asciidoc + CI/CD pipelines and the GitLab Web IDE to enable parallel authoring. Membership is ~742 in 47 countries; teams of dozens-to-hundreds contribute to modular documents, automatic HTML/PDF builds, and eliminate a single human editor. Works today for multiple forums (including the Digital Practitioner body of knowledge and the UNIX spec); scaling consensus, audit reporting and time‑bounded voting remain active challenges.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00The Open Group introduction
- 3:30Standards development process
- 8:01Moving to modern workflows
- 12:08Standards-as-code in practice
- 15:07Scaling and future roadmap
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