Communications Workstream Meeting - 4/28/2025

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Jumping Rivers Blog

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• In progress

Community Meeting

• "Homegrown" Packages
  • Getting comfortable with a package that's not maintained if people leave the company
  • Resource management for being a robust package (unit tests, more issues for people to take on, etc.)
  • Open-source versus internal packages - how do we assess risk (download counts not available, etc.)
  • How do we build trust in our internal packages?
  • Releasing internal packages to be open-source ({roak})
    • Who is responsible for bugs that are found?
    • Does this affect reputation?
    • Does this hinder the stride toward open-source if people are reluctant to scrutiny like that?
• Trusting the bells and whistles of packages like automatic binning.
  • "Black box" methods/functions in validated packages - do we know it's truly validated? What metrics can help make us confident?
  • Standard practice versus validation

Action Items

• Set up calendar invite for community meeting
• Community meeting slides (next communications workstream meeting)