| Aspect | Open Source | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| Governance | Maintainers, community consensus, meritocracy-based influence | Empowered teams, lightweight oversight, guardrails over gates |
| Code Review | Public PRs, async reviews from global contributors, emphasis on transparency | Small PRs, fast feedback loops, pair/mob programming as alternative |
| Documentation | README-driven, contributor guides essential, public wikis | Living documentation, lightweight ADRs, docs as code |
| Branching Strategy | Fork-and-PR model, contributors work in personal forks | Trunk-based development, short-lived feature branches (< 1 day) |
| Communication | Public channels (GitHub issues, Discord, mailing lists) | Co-located teams (in space /and or time), minimal ceremony |
| Release Cadence | Varies widely, often semver-based, maintainer-driven | Continuous delivery, deploy on merge, feature flags for controlled rollout |
| Testing | CI on PRs, community-contributed tests, public test results | Shift-left, developer-owned quality, automated testing in pipeline |
| Security | Public vulnerability disclosure, CVEs, security.md files | DevSecOps, automated scanning in pipeline, security as code |
| Licensing | OSI-approved licenses (MIT, Apache, GPL), CLA/DCO for contributions | Automated license scanning in CI, pre-approved dependency list |
| Onboarding | CONTRIBUTING.md, good first issues, self-serve | Self-serve environments, infrastructure as code, fast path to production |
| Decision Making | RFCs, public discussion, lazy consensus | Team-level autonomy, lightweight RFCs, async architectural decisions |
| Issue Tracking | Public backlog, community triage, labels for discoverability | Small batches, limit WIP, prioritized by flow metrics |
| Dependencies | Community-vetted, broad ecosystem choices | Automated vulnerability scanning, inner source for shared components |
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For security in open-source, there are tools such as trufflehog and promptfoo for AI that are used besides than just secuirty.md. Do you think this could be mentioned?