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pketh / metome

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http://pketh.org/Metome-Journal
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Open source this repo? #30

Closed pketh closed 10 years ago

pketh commented 10 years ago

would require password vars to be stored in a local only gitignored file…

dependent on Milestone 2 completion

pketh commented 10 years ago

pre-requisites for open app repos? development in the open , but also code in the open?

What about balanced payments? is ALL their code in OSS??

pketh commented 10 years ago

from http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everything.html

Ok, then what shouldn't I open source? That's easy. Don't open source anything that represents core business value.

Here are some examples of what we don't open source and why:

Core GitHub Rails app (easier to sell when closed) The Jobs Sinatra app (specially crafted integration with github.com) Here are some examples of things we do open source and why:

Grit (general purpose Git bindings, useful for building many tools) Ernie (general purpose BERT-RPC server) Resque (general purpose job processing) Jekyll (general purpose static site generator) Gollum (general purpose wiki app) Hubot (general purpose chat bot) Charlock_Holmes (general purpose character encoding detection) Albino (general purpose syntax highlighting) Linguist (general purpose filetype detection)

OSSing Metome wouldn't cut into sellability, but might potentially compromise security.

pketh commented 10 years ago

Conclusion: Make separate repos for API integration (or the docs page), blog, issues (which is where I will migrate this stuff to).