AI is making open source contribution harder to trust. Here’s one way Bloomberg and OpenTelemetry got some of it back
Bloomberg's Open Source Program Office (OSPO) ran what it calls its fourth Sustaining Open Source cohort between April and June 2026, with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) arranging the match. OpenTelemetry (OTel) – the CNCF project for collecting telemetry data from applications, and the second-most-active project in the foundation after Kubernetes – had been looking for mid-career contributors it could not easily recruit on its own. Bloomberg, which has now run this model five times, had the engineers.
I spoke to Alyssa Wright of the OSPO, OTel maintainer Severin Neumann, and quantitative researcher Florian Bourgey – who went from his first-ever pull request to the second-most-prolific human contributor on the OTel Demo in a matter of weeks – about what the model gives both sides.
What 10 weeks of structured contribution produced
By the time the cohort wrapped in June, it had produced 118 pull requests (PRs), 70 of...
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