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.
The method
- 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.
- Integrate — a contribution is proposed in an issue, developed on its own branch and submitted as a pull request to
master. Automated checks and public discussion preserve traceability. During the founding phase,Hyadhuadmay also integrate directly under the organization governance policy.
The protocol adapts to different kinds of project, but the logic does not change.
Principles
- Simplicity and cleanliness
- Automation
- Relation and documentation
- Agile development is evolutionary
- Worldwide collaboration
- International community, local emergence
DFMP — the proposal process
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.
State of this documentation
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.
Contributing
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.
DFMP and DAF describe proposed collaboration and governance architecture. Drayker’s current founding-phase governance is documented in draykerdk/.github, and the work is primarily voluntary. Content licensed CC BY 4.0.