# Use governance for software development processes

**URL:** <https://forum.cosmos.network/t/use-governance-for-software-development-processes/9877>\
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**Created:** [February 18, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/use-governance-for-software-development-processes/9877 "2023-02-18T17:25:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![jacobgadikian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/jacobgadikian/32/6994_2.png) [@jacobgadikian](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/jacobgadikian)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2023, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/use-governance-for-software-development-processes/9877/1 "2023-02-18T17:25:30Z")

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Hi 🙂

So this is a thought on software development processes, and governance, and where they intersect.

- Github is currently a hard dependency, more or less
- Github permissioning limits the decentralization of this work
- Permissioning could be related to VotePower of validators or to a governance proposal

Imagine a governance proposal to determine the contents of this file:

> <https://github.com/cosmos/gaia/blob/main/.github/CODEOWNERS#L4>

How could we make it such that Gaia chooses her own maintainers?

- gov props that choose CODEOWNERS
- all validators are also CODEOWNERS
- validators meeting a certain VotePower threshold are CODEOWNERS

How could we make it so that gaia no longer has a strictly defined github repository?

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**Author:** ![LeonoorsCryptoman](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/forum.cosmos.network/leonoorscryptoman/32/5758_2.png) [@LeonoorsCryptoman](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/LeonoorsCryptoman)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2023, 6:22pm UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/use-governance-for-software-development-processes/9877/2 "2023-02-19T18:22:49Z")

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> How could we make it so that gaia no longer has a strictly defined github repository?

You mean here to decentralize the repo of Gaia? Such that there is not one central repo anymore, but more distributed over various locations?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/uploads/cosmos1/original/2X/2/2a3beb3e0f97ddad3b51a8d0d4a22abaa95604d8.png) [@system](https://forum.cosmos.network/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.cosmos.network/t/use-governance-for-software-development-processes/9877/3 "2023-03-05T18:23:39Z")

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