[lobster_johnson]

In our company, every developer must fork the main repo to their own account, and every change that they want merged into master needs to be done as a PR that is then reviewed by the right person. That's a completely distributed process, and works great for a small company. We obviously need a central repo because apps need to be deployed from a single history -- a central master branch is not an antipattern, as suggested by the author. Even Linux has a central master branch.

[thanksgiving]

My perspective is that we might be looking at two different things: development and deployment. Of course, each deployment has a canon. I think the idea of the bazaar is that there does not need to be a single canon but maybe I'm misinterpreting it.