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Nassos A. Michas edited this page Dec 15, 2016 · 1 revision

This is a graphical depiction of how, and why, we moved from having to maintain forked code to using external artefacts as overlays with our own code. A technical discussion of this approach is available under [Developing OpenWIS v4 functionality](Developing OpenWIS v4 functionality).

The problem when forking a very active project

Problems... in numbers

An overlay-based approach

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