{"id":6354,"date":"2020-04-07T22:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T03:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2020-05-05T10:13:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T15:13:32","slug":"open-source-methodologies-project-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=6354","title":{"rendered":"Open Source Methodologies – Project Types"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott and I were discussing a methodology for use in open source development, and I mentioned that there are some projects that someone posted online as an open source contribution where they’re not looking for input. I have some of these — if someone finds a bug in the code I wrote to gather MS Teams usage stats<\/a>, I appreciate their help. If they want to change the report format, or what’s being reported, or … well, it’s a script I wrote and use for a specific purpose, and that’s what it does. Feel free to make a fork and adjust the report to suit your needs. But I’m not going to merge a PR in that keeps five years worth of data because I don’t want<\/em> five years worth of data. And that’s a perfectly valid decision for code I built that I shared in case it helps someone else who needs to achieve a similar goal. I call this a dictatorial project — there’s an individual that makes the decisions. If you want to change something about how the program works, you should run it by the dictator prior to putting a lot of effort into it. Or plan on making changes in your own fork.<\/p>\n

There are oligarchic projects — those may be corporate sponsored projects or projects owned by a group of private individuals. As with dictatorial projects, there are a small number of people “in charge” who decide if PRs are merged or not.<\/p>\n

And there are democratic projects — at least in theory. I don’t know if this ends up being true in practice anywhere. But, in theory, a large community of developers or users would drive the direction of the project.<\/p>\n

I suppose, if I’m discussing theoretical repository management types … I could add in mass chaos. Open for anyone to merge changes. This is an approach that’s worked surprisingly well for Wikipedia, so I suppose it could work for a smaller code base. Someone merges in some malicious or flawed code, someone else puts in a fix.<\/p>\n

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