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

Hideaki Hata

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

Software Engineering 2022-04-28 v1

Authors: Hideaki Hata

Abstract

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.

Keywords

FLOSS ecosystem meta-maintenance software maintenance blockchain source code management issue management human capital index

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@article{arxiv.2204.12712,
  title  = {Release as a Contract: A Concept of Meta-Maintenance for the Entire FLOSS Ecosystem},
  author = {Hideaki Hata},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.12712},
  year   = {2022}
}

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