10.5281/zenodo.1293991
https://zenodo.org/records/1293991
oai:zenodo.org:1293991
Thiery, Florian
Florian
Thiery
0000-0002-3246-3531
Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum (RGZM)
Schmid, Clemens
Clemens
Schmid
0000-0003-3448-5715
Initiative for Statistical Analysis in Archaeology Kiel
Looking for the "grey value" in research and geodesy: Is there right or wrong in software framework decisions?
Zenodo
2018
Git
Software Development
IGSM
2018-06-20
eng
Presentation
10.5281/zenodo.1293990
https://zenodo.org/communities/linkedgeodesy
https://zenodo.org/communities/florianthiery
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Working in research institutes as geodesist and working in geodesy companies produces always the same question: Is there the “right” decision? Do we have to choose always the way right or left or is there some kind of “grey value”, changing from right to left and from the left to the right? In geodesy there are a lot of examples where the “right” decision is not objectively given - it always depends on the usage. Examples in geodesy (research) like QGIS vs. ArcGIS or Open Street Map vs. Google Maps show how difficult decisions are and that we are always looking for the “grey value” to switch from the left to the right side. In geodesy research and research in general we have to consider that it is always political. The “right” objective decision of a developer is often not concordant with the “right” political statement. For example open software and source code is better than close blackboxes to allow reproducibility and transparency, but proprietary software might be faster or more convinient to use. This paper will focus on searching the “grey value” and “right” decision in version control software in software development, here especially Git, because between GitHub and GitLab you always have to make two main decisions: visibility vs. open source and community vs. ethics of science.