7 Led
2019
7 Led
'19
14:35
Hi Jóhann,
the term "open source" hides so many flavors that it would be hard to
make categories where each project fit into. You have mentioned two
extremes - community driven project with equal contribution of parties
on workload together with decision making and on the other hand company
that publishes source code and doesn't care about anything.
The first one is probably dream case which will hardly happen and
mostly depends on capabilities of other parties but we are definitely
not the other extreme. So I'd say we are something in the middle. Since
CZ.NIC is the main contributor, it also decides on development
priorities. This may change when some strong contributor comes in. But
we have implemented requests from other FRED users several times and
even accepted patches.
Hopefully this will answer some of your questions.
Regards,
Jaromir
On Fri, 2019-01-04 at 13:50 +0000, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
On 1/4/19 9:27 AM, Jaromir Talir wrote:
Hi Jóhann,
it's great to hear that ISNIC is evaluating FRED. Feel free to
report
any obstacles, we will do our best to make it right tool for you :)
I'm in no doubt you would but this and reference to ( internal
tracker?
) issues in commit's on github begs the question how much ( if any )
registry ( or the 3r's ) community product fred is and perhaps every
open sourced project coming from the cz.nic development department?
To further explain what I'm getting at is that the general
association
is made when hearing or reading the term ‘open source’ is that the
software project is collaboratively developed and shared freely with
whoever wants to see it (some licenses prohibit commercial use or
abstraction, but in general anybody who wants to can look at the
code
and modify it for their private non-commercial use).
It's an world where anyone can join the developer community and
submit
code and patches and other resources, and contribute to the roadmap
of
that project. Sometimes the new joiner may not have commit access
until
their credentials are proven, but the project is generally community
based and community driven.
In the case of Fred that community would most likely be made up of
the
registry, registrar and registrant, the target audience of such
application or application stack )
The there is the "unenlightened" association in which projects
commonly
generated by universities,institutions, corporate and other entities
in
which they freely share their source code, but they provide no
community
mechanisms for contributing to it or helping guide its direction.
Sure individuals can email in a patch or suggestion, make pull
request
in git(hub) and hope that it gets applied but there is no guarantee
this
will happen.
The only way to get their voice(s) heard is to either know the right
people within the developer team, or to establish a formal
collaboration
between universities,institutions, corporate and other entities so
that
they can co-develop the project together.
Basically the open sourcing of the project is done in the strictest
literal sense of the word, in that the source code is open for anyone
to
see but no more no less which more then often than not leads to fork
offs..
Of the above, which one does Fred fall under?
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