Release as a Contract: A Concept of Meta-Maintenance for the Entire FLOSS Ecosystem

04/27/2022
by   Hideaki Hata, et al.
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We advocate for a paradigm shift in supporting free/libre and open source software (FLOSS) ecosystem maintenance, from focusing on individual projects to monitoring a whole organic system of the entire FLOSS ecosystem, which we call software meta-maintenance. We discuss challenges of building a global source code management system, a global issue management system, and FLOSS human capital index, based on the blockchain technologies.

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