Name: Automated Checks Before Publishing Open Source, a Few Years Later - Nico Rikken & Leander van der Bijl, Alliander
Start: 2026-09-16T13:20:00+0200
End: 2026-09-16T13:30:00+0200

15 - 16 September | Berlin, Germany
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Automated Checks Before Publishing Open Source, a Few Years Later - Nico Rikken & Leander van der Bijl, Alliander

Wednesday September 16, 2026 13:20 - 13:30 CEST

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At the LF Energy Summit of 2024, Alliander’s OSPO team presented their internal process for preparing projects to be released as open source. One presentation highlighted the tooling and automation in place to review the codebase prior to open sourcing.

After two years of working with this setup, Alliander is improving the automation approach based on the lessons learned during this period. In this presentation, the team of Alliander will share the new insights, the planned improvements and the progress made so far:

Teams now run the pipeline themselves, rather than the OSPO. This required the policies to change to reduce the number of false-positives that would cause confusion. Ideally the automation could be run on the developer laptop and as an open source pipeline on pull-requests after becoming open source. In the meantime Repolinter is no longer maintained, raising the question for revival or replacement. License review of dependencies still requires expertise of the OSPO given the number of false-positives.

The OSPO SIG is the place to continue knowledge sharing and collaboration on this topic in the LF Energy community.

Speakers

Nico Rikken

Open Source Advocate, Alliander

Nico Rikken has a track record in maximizing the potential of Free and Open Source Software in the energy sector and in the Netherlands. As Open Source Ambassador at grid operator Alliander he helps make open source project participation successful and ensure control over the company... Read More →

Leander van der Bijl

Open Source Advocate, Alliander

Open Source Advocate at Alliander

Wednesday September 16, 2026 13:20 - 13:30 CEST
Seebühne

Open Source Strategy, Lightning Talk

LF Energy Summit Europe 2026

Nico Rikken

Leander van der Bijl

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