Series
Merge Conflicts
Who decides in an open source project,
how they decide,
and who can review the decision.
Twelve projects, the same questions.
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How the series is organized
Merge Conflicts is planned in eight seasons. Parts are numbered in reading order within each season, and only published parts appear and link.
Season 2 asks the same governance questions of twelve projects, in alphabetical order: Backdrop, the CSS and HTML standards bodies, Drupal, Ghost, Joomla, MariaDB, MySQL, Node.js, OpenJS, PHP, TYPO3 and WordPress. Season 3 reads WordPress’s record through dated documents.
A companion series of first-person pieces runs beside the seasons, with its own numbering.
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