* [RFC] doc: start reproducibility document
@ 2020-04-07 9:37 Eric Wong
2020-04-08 0:24 ` Kyle Meyer
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From: Eric Wong @ 2020-04-07 9:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: meta
Not new ideas, just gathering thoughts.
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+reproducibility => forkability
+------------------------------
+
+The ability to fork a project is a checks and balances
+system for free software projects. Reproducibility is key
+to forkability since every mirror is potential fork.
+
+git makes the code history of projects fully reproducible.
+public-inbox uses git to make the email history of projects
+reproducible.
+
+Keeping all communications as email ensures the full history
+of the entire project can be mirrored by anyone with the
+resources to do so. Compact, low-complexity data requires
+less resources to mirror, so sticking with plain-text
+ensures more parties can mirror and potentially fork the
+project with all its data.
+
+Any private or irreproducible data is a barrier to forking.
+These include mailing list subscriber information and
+non-federated user identities. The "pull" subscriber model
+of NNTP and Atom feeds combined with open-to-all posting
+means there's no need for private data.
+
+If these things make power hungry project leaders and admins
+uncomfortable, good. That was the point. It's how checks
+and balances ought to work.
+
+Comments, corrections, etc welcome: meta@public-inbox.org
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* Re: [RFC] doc: start reproducibility document
2020-04-07 9:37 [RFC] doc: start reproducibility document Eric Wong
@ 2020-04-08 0:24 ` Kyle Meyer
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From: Kyle Meyer @ 2020-04-08 0:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Wong; +Cc: meta
Eric Wong <e@yhbt.net> writes:
> Not new ideas, just gathering thoughts.
Thanks. Ideas will are always be new to some :) It's nice to make them
easy to discover for someone exploring the project tree.
It reads well to me.
> +The ability to fork a project is a checks and balances
> +system for free software projects. Reproducibility is key
> +to forkability since every mirror is potential fork.
Missing an "a" in front of "potential".
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