Pattern Idea: Scripts To Rule Them All

Pattern idea: Enable contributions in polyglot environments with "Scripts To Rule Them All"

Many companies have a polyglot environment, using multiple different programming languages for the software that they build. The different programming ecosystems come with various ways of bootstrapping the project locally. That means that getting from git clone to an up-and-running project in a development environment works very differently, depending on the programming ecosystem.

Hypothesis

Making it easy to bootstrap a project will encourage contributions from a wider range of contributors, even if they don't know the specific programming language that well.

Examples in the wild

The GitHub team has written about this idea here:
https://github.blog/2015-06-30-scripts-to-rule-them-all/
https://github.com/github/scripts-to-rule-them-all

How to write the pattern

One approach for writing this pattern could be to find somebody that works at GitHub and is familiar with the Scripts To Rule Them All approach. Interview them and write a pattern about this approach together with them.

Other references

Also see this discussion in the InnerSource Commons Slack about the "impact of choice of programming language for the success of an InnerSource project":
https://innersourcecommons.slack.com/archives/C04PXKRN4/p1589456355371100

(link doesn't work anymore because we cannot go that far back in the Slack history)

先从链接的 GitHub 文章和 github/scripts-to-rule-them-all 仓库开始，了解所提议的模式。采访一位熟悉该方法的人，然后记录它如何支持多语言项目的引导；完成的标准是形成一个基于这些输入的完整、可供审查的模式。