From Closed To Collaborative: Perspectives and Lessons From Qualcomm’s Open Development Experience
summary
Qualcomm moves a whole Linux product ecosystem from private downstream branches to a public, mainline-first model over 18 months, creating an Open Source Developer Office, oss.qualcomm.com identities and a Qualcomm GitHub org. Engineering uses GitHub Actions plus an internal unified CI, Lava device testing and template repos enforcing semantic versioning, license checks and security scans. Rollout starts as a Yocto MVP (kernel, audio, graphics) then expands to Debian; contributors jump from 188 to 377 and merged PRs double to ~6,290.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:44Open development at Qualcomm
- 6:43New ways of thinking
- 16:19Development workflows
- 22:24Rollout strategy
- 24:50Lessons and insights from the transition
- 29:03Questions and answers
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