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Pattern Idea: Hive mind

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale

Research direction

Start with the issue description and review the repository's existing patterns to understand how a proposal becomes a formalized pattern. Compare the hive-mind idea with related patterns and the discussion in this issue; done means an agreed, complete pattern suitable for the collection.

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Description

:book: Type - Content Work 1-initial

This pattern proposal illustrates exactly what I'm trying to describe.

Often in corporations, there's a strong need to release a finished idea into the open. But here in the InnerSource Commons, even a vague intuition can be expressed, with others in the community contributing to help make it whole, or discrediting it.

When implementing InnerSource or even open source, one should be encouraged to open up early on to elicit feedback from other participants in the community, treating the community as a "hive mind".

Based on my talks with others in the community, this seems to be a novel idea, so I think it can be formalized into a pattern.

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Forks
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Avg merge
1d 23h
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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