Mending Chesterton's Fence: Open Source Decision-making - Crossref

When each line of code is written it is surrounded by a sea of context: who in the community this is for, what problem we’re trying to solve, what technical assumptions we’re making, what we already tried but didn’t work, how much coffee we’ve had today. All of these have an effect on the software we write.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://0-www-crossref-org.libus.csd.mu.edu/blog/mending-chestertons-fence-open-source-decision-making