democracy or benevolent dictatorship (works for linux) or whatever you guys want

beware, 100% consensus isn't always achievable, so don't make the project pay for wanting it

this is how it could be:

1. decide among you who is going to lead
2. the leader invites people to follow (starting by the inner circle)
3. ignore any noise

the project moves forward, the community profits from things done and the community knows who's behind the project*

* BTW there is an idea for smalltalk hub that I thing don't even github got it yet: 

an incentive for meritocracy 

you only need to expose that inner circle of people. No need to be a group feature, just a top ten of people that had its push requests accepted. That ranking would be permanently answering an important social question the audience will ask itself all the time: 
"who's helping this guy to get this done?"






On Nov 22, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:

And what happens where is isnt't ONE gay? say there are 3 or 4 guys in the community that manage the project? what should we do? create a user named after the project? hahaha

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@gmail.com> wrote:
yes, you're right, but Norbert point is that, right now, you cannot fork the project (and you should be able to do it)

Esteban


On Nov 22, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Sebastian Sastre <sebastian@flowingconcept.com> wrote:

Is there an explanation why in smalltalkhub every project resides below a user? 

because things in this universe don't get done if someone isn't leading it? :D

the leader of any project is (a) the curator of that project and (b) the one positioned to better inspire followers

if people likes it, people follows the project and/or the guy

if someone doesn't like the direction, that person can fork and lead it himself in another direction

github got it right, I'm glad smalltalkhub too

and it's not about mimicking github (which wouldn't be bad) it's mimicking the way people want to work

it's about natural selection applied to software projects at its best

makes sense?


o/

PD: if someone abandons a project, no big deal, it will be there hanging out while another fork might be flourishing. Also projects property should be transferrable from one user to another for the cases in which that happens orderly.






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