# Collaborative work on malleable software

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**Created:** [9 September 2023 07:58 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/collaborative-work-on-malleable-software/109 "2023-09-09T07:58:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![khinsen](https://forum-cdn.malleable.systems/user_avatar/forum.malleable.systems/khinsen/32/45_2.png) [@khinsen](https://forum.malleable.systems/u/khinsen)\
**Post date:** [9 September 2023 07:58 UTC](https://forum.malleable.systems/t/collaborative-work-on-malleable-software/109/1 "2023-09-09T07:58:58Z")

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Is anyone aware of workflows and/or support tools for collaborative work on malleable software?

My idea would be for each participant to have their personal repository, with links to other participants’ versions. Tools would support discovering further versions (by following neighbor links), and providing summaries of changes elsewhere that would then be easy to integrate in one’s own version.

Git looks perfectly fine as an infrastructure, but today’s forges are insufficient because they assume asymmetric fork relations between repositories, rather than equal peer relations. I don’t know if federated forges (forgejo but also current GitLab projects) propose a different model.

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