DFM is the paradigm Drayker's projects and motions for resolution are built with. It exists to answer one question: how do thousands of people who have never met work on the same problem without a manager standing between them?
The answer is to stop distributing tasks and start distributing functions — pieces small enough that one person can finish one, and defined enough that the result composes with the rest.
- Model — the issue is modelled and modularized, with the initial strategy expressed as a Bayesian model. Before any code, what is known, what is assumed, and what would change the strategy are written down.
- Fragment — the problem is partitioned into small functions.
- Distribute — functions are distributed among collaborators through decentralized peer review. Nobody is assigned work; contributors claim what matches their skill.
- Review — ideas are discussed with communities and councils and turned into a comprehensive, widely revised paper. Validation runs alongside development, not after it.
- Legitimate — once legitimated, a pull request goes through the community review branch to be legitimized for master. Updates to a paper travel first through the branch of that paper's validation status.
The protocol adapts to different kinds of project, but the logic does not change.
- Simplicity and cleanliness
- Automation
- Relation and documentation
- Agile development is evolutionary
- Worldwide collaboration
- International community, local emergence
DFMP is the path a proposal takes from an idea to a legitimated paper. The protocol has to ensure that papers created from it are self-assessed, validated and re-evaluated. Before entering the approval process, a paper must have been presented to the community through the issues and widely discussed. All goals and purposes must be in line with Drayker.
dfmpp/ holds the proposals themselves.
The method and the proposal path are written down. DFMP-000, the paper that should specify the proposal process itself, is currently a title and nothing more. Writing it is the most useful thing anyone could contribute here, and it does not require permission — open an issue with the draft.
Open an issue in this repository. Issues small enough for one person to finish carry the open-function label and appear on the board at drayker.org.
Related: dfmpproject (proposing a project through DFM) · metadfmp (modeling the method itself) · dknowledge (papers and roadmap).
Other languages: Português · Español — both currently behind this English version.
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