democratic-collaboration

In open source projects there is one or more people responsible to merge features and fixes in to the master branch. Due lack of time or interest this can be a bottleneck.

Democratic collaboration introduces a contribution based weighted voting system for merging. As soon as you contribute to a project, you get a share or responsibility for the progress of the project.

Github Pull Request are the main contact point. Reviewing a PR with an 'Approve' votes for yes, 'Request change' is no.

The number of commits on the repository is the weight for the vote.

If a PR is ready for merge a voting is started (starting value 0):

• If a reviewer 'Request changes' the value decreases by their contribution value.
• If a reviewer 'Approve' the value increases by their contribution value.
• Based on the value and total of votes is coefficient is calculated and the PR is merged in coefficient * (5 + pull_request.commits * 5)) days.

Develop

Set TOKEN as environment variable and run python src/server.py. For github oauth feature provide GITHUB_CLIENT_ID and GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET, callback url is /github-callback. Set Session secret as SESSION_SECRET initial a random string.

Api

• /v1/:org/:repo/pull/:number e.g. /v1/tooangel/democratic-collaboration/pull/43/ to get info about the pull request

  Response:

{
    "mergeable": true,
    "message": "alles super"
}

Production environment

Started on some random server in screen, with while true; do . .env; pip install -r requirements.txt; git pull; python src/server.py; donewhile true; do . .env; pip install -r requirements.txt; git pull; python src/server.py; done

Get GET /restart/ stops the server process and restarted by the command line command. Super ugly I know, just quickly solved somehow.