Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 37

This model can work well when there is a set of commonly used libraries that some developers often use together, but such that there isn't enough maintenance work for each one individually.

So what people do is to create a group that maintains all those projects, to try and get enough money to survive from the contributions done primarily for each one individually.

Examples:

The most important ones are:

Because a Git commit can have more than 1 parent due to merge commits when you do:

It can even have more than 2, there's no limit. Although that is not so common (with good reason, 2 is already one too many): softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/314215/can-a-git-commit-have-more-than-2-parents/377903#377903

As mentioned by Craig Venter in 100 Greatest Discoveries by the Discovery Channel (2004-2005), the main outcomes of the project were:

Important predecessors:

2022 page: www.cs.ox.ac.uk/teaching/courses/qsoft/ Half of the problems are Jupyter Notebooks, not bad.

Like Quantum Processes and Computation course of the University of Oxford, also ZX-calculus-heavy.

Kind of extends the complex numbers.

Some facts that make them stand out:

For super-resolution microscopy.

This could have been a Nobel Prize in Physics as well!