World Driven - Democratic Pull Request Management Through Contribution-Based Voting

World Driven transforms how open source projects handle pull requests by implementing a fair, transparent, and automated merge system based on contributor participation.

How It Works

Instead of waiting indefinitely for maintainer approval, pull requests are automatically merged after a configurable time period (default: 10 days). Contributors can vote on PRs through GitHub's native review system:

• Approve a review to speed up the merge
• Request Changes to slow it down or block the merge

The weight of each vote is proportional to the reviewer's contributions to the project. A contributor with 40% of the project's commits has a vote worth 40% of the merge duration. If 100% of weighted votes approve, the PR merges immediately.

Problems We Solve

• Maintainer Bottlenecks: Projects no longer stall when maintainers are unavailable or lose interest
• Unclear Processes: Contributors know exactly when their PR will merge and what can change that timeline
• Power Imbalances: All contributors gain voting power proportional to their involvement
• Abandoned Projects: Active contributors can keep projects moving forward even without the original maintainer

Key Features

• Transparent, rule-based merging with clear timelines
• Automatic time adjustments based on PR complexity (commit count)
• Detailed status checks showing merge calculations and timing
• Configurable per-repository via .worlddriven.ini
• Native integration with GitHub's review system
• Dashboard for monitoring repositories and pull requests

Current Status

World Driven is battle-tested on its own repository and several other projects. It's a working prototype that practices what it preaches - the project itself is managed using this system.

Perfect For

• Open source projects with distributed maintainership
• Teams wanting democratic code review processes
• Projects vulnerable to single points of failure
• Communities prioritizing contributor empowerment

Ready to give your contributors a voice? Install World Driven and let your community drive itself forward.