VMware’s CloudFoundry platform as a service (PaaS) has always been open source, but the company has announced changes to its processes that will encourage more community participation on the cloud development tool. Specifically, VMware is using a new Gerrit code review system to streamline the process of making changes to the CloudFoundry source code. “What it lets us do is work much more efficiently with the community so we can engage the community more like peers and more like an extension of our engineering team,” explained VMware’s Mark Lucovsky.
VMware CTO Steve Herrod added, “We see CloudFoundry as being the Linux of the cloud.”
