REI's Expedition into Open Source
summary
Front-end team creates a covert rei-dev GitHub account, modularizes new code into standalone packages and submits upstream patches to Istanbul, npm and Maven ecosystems. Management signs off but legal and security remain the blockers after a brief 10–15 minute legal meeting. Already built tools waiting behind review include Atlas, rev, shoelace, scenery (CSS/JS sourcemap transformer, MD5 cache-buster, style framework, HTML5 presenter) and continuous integration plus code-review workflows, work-in-progress not yet public.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:49Presentation Overview
- 2:39Robs Background
- 10:34How Open Source Started
- 14:40Quest into Legitimacy
- 18:24Open Source Projects
- 20:36QA
- 26:51Modularisation
