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.

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.

• /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"
}

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.