Re:Dear-GitHub: Host Github by itself as an open source project
by joelhandwell on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @12:36AM
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+1 button could work as voting system to reduce that maintenance burden too. Semi-democratic method can be introduced to merge most voted and looks good to MS.
Re:Dear-GitHub: Host Github by itself as an open source project
by nemothekid on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @01:48AM
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The only thing that sounds worse than design by committee is design by democracy. Do you know of any successful projects that are managed this way?
Re:Dear-GitHub: Host Github by itself as an open source project
by joelhandwell on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @01:56AM
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My words were not clear, I meant and edited to "semi-democratic" way. The voting is one indicator but I also believe strong vision and strategy of leader is the key to success.
And my point was not +1 button but splitting code into open source "Client side + Test-backend" and closed sourced "Production-backend". Backend can be composed of some interface and multiple implementation such as test impl and prod impl. Actually Github could be hosted in Azure and I do not care their backend as I go github.com anyway.
If everyone contributes their pet UI feature (e.g. custom theme, use XYZ monospace font), then there will be dozens of features that only 0.01% of users use, but it increases the overall complexity of the product and maintenance burden.