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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