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The interesting thing is that we have solved this. Groups of people much larger than single corporations work together effectively using systems like GitHub, Wi
by InsideOutSanta 2y ago
The interesting thing is that we have solved this. Groups of people much larger than single corporations work together effectively using systems like GitHub, Wikipedia, or npm, without overloading the social graph. I don't know why companies don't use similar systems internally — although I'm sure some do, but perhaps they don't advertise it, because it's a huge competitive advantage.
- mandevil 2y agoThe modal OSS project is a one man band, or at most 2-3 people involved. By the time you get to something large scale there is also quite a bit of bureaucracy there too. Look at something like, to pick something mostly at random, a single project of the Linux Foundation, KernelCI, devoted to building CI for the Linux Kernel. And that has a Technical Steering Committee, ad hoc working groups, differentiation of responsibilities, etc. It has, for all practical purposes, just the sorts of middle management that I'm talking about.
- geewee 2y agoI don't really think we have. There are many open source projects that duplicate work for a variety of reasons. Perfectly fine for stuff you want to do, but probably not an optimal allocation of resources