On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:09 AM, R|diger Koch <rudiger.koch@googlemail.com> wrote:

That is the point of it. Centralized systems are prone to all kinds of corruption. None of them is widely accepted, and for good reason. If the conceptual problems can be solved, it would be an ideal companion to Bitcoin. I believe Michael may be onto something big.

Something that just came to mind... It would make sense for the Zero State to make use of distributed software engineering tools for its development projects, as it aims toward a completely decentralized way of going about just about everything. This implies at a minimum a revision control system like Git (http://git-scm.com/), or more ideally a complete solution like Fossil (https://www.fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki). Git only handles revision control and tracking of files checked into it, but Fossil includes a fully distributed wiki, bug tracker, and blog. While a "home base" server could (and should) be set up, each participating client has a point-in-time snapshot of the whole shebang, and clients could update one another if necessary; ideally, multiple home base servers which sync with one another could be established (with round-robin DNS records) and clients can sync from a single hostname (home-base.zerostate.net, let's say). Where I'm going with this is here: pre- and post-commit hooks can be integrated into the repo to do arbitrary things... like ping a reputation management system to register the activity carried out by developers as part of the repnet being discused in this thread. I suspect that plug-ins could be developed that also manage a user's reputation index based upon blog posts, tickets opened/commented/fixed/closed out, comments left on posts, documentation written, and so on and so forth. This would also have the advantage of being self-documenting, because rep would be based upon the deliverables checked into the repository and thus visible to everyone taking part. This could also be used, now that I think of it, for managing and developing stuff for the ARG. -- The Doctor [412/724/301/703] https://drwho.virtadpt.net/ "I am everywhere." -- Zero State mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/DoctrineZero ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE