# InnerSource Patterns WG - Report for Board Meeting 2025-02

## Meta

* Reporting Period: 2024-11..2025-01
* [merged PRs](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/pulls?q=is%3Apr+closed%3A2024-11..2025-01+is%3Amerged)
* [opened issues](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/issues?q=is%3Aissue+created%3A2024-11..2025-01+is%3Aopen)

## Engagement

The [patterns book][] is the way InnerSource practices are captured and shared. Recent web analytics:

* total traffic on the patterns book (tracking_id: `G-QL1S8MW5D9`)
  * 14,592 views total (prev 14,308)
  * 1,784 users (prev 1,908)
* Most popular patterns:
  * InnerSource Portal
  * 30 Day Warranty
  * Maturity Model
  * Standard Base Documentation
  * Core Team
* traffic for translations (btw the URLs here have changed at some point. used to be /v/ja etc):
  * Japanese (/ja) - 2163 (prev 1300)
  * Chinese (/zh) - 597 (prev 305)
  * Brazilian Portuguese (/pt-br) - 418 (prev 332)
  * Galician (/gl) - 101 (prev 46)
  * English (/) - roughly 11,313
* interpretations
  * Of our translated content, the Japanese patterns are consumed the most. Great to see that the content provides value to users in that geo/language.
  * Year over year the total views are down quite a bit. not sure why. (see reports from 2023)

## Changes

Changes are contributed via the [InnerSourcePatterns][] repository:

* new patterns:
  * [Internal Developer Platform](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/1-initial/internal-developer-platform.md)
  * [InnerSource Ambassadors](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/1-initial/innersource-ambassador.md)
  * [Governance Level Guided Project Setup](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/1-initial/governance-based-project-setup.md)
  * [Circle Communities](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/1-initial/circle-communities.md)
  * [Managing Capacity for Reviewing Contributions](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/1-initial/capacity-for-contributions.md)
* translations
  * none
* additions of Known Instances (applications of our patterns in the wild)
  * SAP added to [Transparent Cross-Team Decision Making using RFCs](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/2-structured/transparent-cross-team-decision-making-using-rfcs.md)
  * IKEA added to [InnerSource Hackathon](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/1-initial/innersource-hackathon.md)
  * BBC added to [Governance Level Guided Project Setup](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/1-initial/governance-based-project-setup.md)
  * WellSky added to [InnerSource Ambassadors](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/patterns/1-initial/innersource-ambassador.md)
* other
  * some UI improves (just using some of the newer features of our hosting provider gitbook)

## Things to come

* I (@spier) used a [Kanban style board](https://github.com/orgs/InnerSourceCommons/projects/32) more rigurously in the last few months. It did help me figure out where I should invest my time to move patterns/issues/prs through the process. It shows in the number of patterns that were added to the repo.
* [Creating a plan](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/issues/772) to get more patterns published in the book
  * spoiler: we have 6 patterns that could do that in the medium term.
  * Need more hands though to make this happen.
  * Fun fact: this activity was triggered by the ISPO WG asking about patterns were not published in the book yet, but somehow they knew existed :)
* Micaela Eller (from the ISPO WG) offered to help with leveling up further patterns. Will onboard her in the coming weeks.
* [A proposal](https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/issues/777) was made to translate the patterns to Spanish. yay!

## Trusted Committers (Community)

* Last [Trusted Committer][] added was [@yuhattor](https://github.com/yuhattor) (added 2022-07-21)
* Trusted Committer candidates in the pipeline: No
* Finding new contributors and further trusted committers continues to be the main challenge of the InnerSource Patterns project

[patterns book]: https://patterns.innersourcecommons.org/
[InnerSourcePatterns]: https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/
[Trusted Committer]: https://github.com/InnerSourceCommons/InnerSourcePatterns/blob/main/TRUSTED-COMMITTERS.md
