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Second Contribution by Ufuoma Ejite #53

Closed joy-commits closed 1 year ago

joy-commits commented 1 year ago

Name: Ufuoma Ejite

Projects Analyzed: CVXPY | OpenRefine

Links to the Governance Model of the Projects: CVXPY governance model can be accessed here, and that of OpenRefine can be accessed here

A Written Analysis: Similarities and Differences

The Project Roles

CVXPY: The project roles that exist within CVXPY are

  1. Benevolent Dictator For Life (BDFL): This is the project creator, and he retains the final say regarding disputes and arguments in the community.
  2. Project maintainers: They are the ultimate authority regarding the CVXPY project.
  3. Emeritus project maintainers: They are the ex-project maintainers, and perform a less active role.
  4. Steering committee: They handle the legal and administrative tasks within CVXPY.

OpenRefine: The project roles that exist within OpenRefine are

  1. Users: They are community members who have a need for the project.
  2. Contributors: They are users getting more involved with the project.
  3. Committers: They make regular contributions to the project. They can review and merge pull requests.
  4. Release manager: They coordinate new releases, issues, and pull requests.
  5. Steering committee: They oversee the general direction of the project, and perform advocacy duties.
  6. Advisory committee: They run the administrative duties of the project.
  7. Project director: They help to improve OpenRefine's governance and community diversity, and other day-to-day operations.

The Decision-making Process

The decision-making process in CVXPY is based on the consensus of the project maintainers and steering committee; however, the BDFL is the final decision-maker. All financial decisions are made by the Steering Committee to ensure any funds are spent in a manner that furthers the mission of CVXPY. All non-financial decisions are made via the consensus of the Project Maintainers. Decisions in OpenRefine are made transparently. All decisions are carried out with the involvement and participation of the community. This is done by first building a consensus with the users and then voting amongst the users.

Conclusion

CVXPY operates a founder-leader kind of governance model where the BDFL (or project creator) has the final say regarding decision-making. OpenRefine operates a meritocratic or democratic kind of governance model where everyone gets to be involved in decision-making. One advantage of this governance model is that it enables members to decide their level of involvement with that community. I think the governance model of OpenRefine is better than that of CVXPY because of its transparency, which, I believe, should be the core of every open-source project.

maryamgbemisola commented 1 year ago

@joy-commits . Check out your Conclusion

joy-commits commented 1 year ago

@joy-commits . Check out your Conclusion

Thank you @maryamgbemisola. I was just already editing it

joy-commits commented 1 year ago

Hello @arliss-NF I've made my second contribution. Thank you

arliss-NF commented 1 year ago

@joy-commits - this is great - I support your choice that OpenRefine is a better model. BDFL model can stall a projects progress when only 1 person makes the final choice. Thanks so much for completing Tasks 1 and 2.

joy-commits commented 1 year ago

Thank you @arliss-NF for the review