When building software, I believe it is important to work in public. Software can give small groups of developers immense power over lots of people. Like how governments work in public and corporations have to be more public than private company, developers should be transparent not only with their source code, but also the discussions and processes while building it. This can be hard to get used to, but not bad once used to it. Great examples of this are #Debian #GitLab and IMHO #FDroid
@eighthave
I agree, except substitute your example of gitlab for @forgejo
Gitlab has non-foss features.
@shaadra @forgejo While true that GitLab has proprietary features, the FOSS version is complete and widely used. What I'm talking about is more than just source code. GitLab operates as a company quite openly on gitlab.com and their employee handbook https://handbook.gitlab.com/ is public and open to all to submit merge requests. Or how Debian/F-Droid dev discussions happen on public forums that anyone can join. FOSDEM is another great example, anyone can just show up and take part in all of it
