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Producing Open Source Software

How to Run a Successful Free Software Project

By
Karl Fogel
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
October 2005
Pages:
304
Description
This comprehensive guide offers several tried and true steps to help you successfully manage the complex process of developing free software. Topics include project management, developer motivation, technical infrastructure to support collaboration, and project promotion. Producing Open Source Software is ideal for developers starting their own free software projects, or people who simply want to participate in the process.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction

    1. History

    2. The Situation Today

  2. Chapter 2 Getting Started

    1. First, Look Around

    2. Starting from What You Have

    3. Choosing a License and Applying It

    4. Setting the Tone

    5. Announcing

  3. Chapter 3 Technical Infrastructure

    1. What a Project Needs

    2. Mailing Lists

    3. Version Control

    4. Bug Tracker

    5. IRC/Real-Time Chat Systems

    6. Wikis

    7. Web Site

  4. Chapter 4 Social and Political Infrastructure

    1. Forkability

    2. Benevolent Dictators

    3. Consensus-Based Democracy

    4. Writing It All Down

  5. Chapter 5 Money

    1. Types of Involvement

    2. Hire for the Long Term

    3. Appear as Many, Not as One

    4. Be Open About Your Motivations

    5. Money Can't Buy You Love

    6. Contracting

    7. Funding Non-Programming Activities

    8. Marketing

  6. Chapter 6 Communications

    1. You Are What You Write

    2. Avoiding Common Pitfalls

    3. Difficult People

    4. Handling Growth

    5. No Conversations in the Bug Tracker

    6. Publicity

  7. Chapter 7 Packaging, Releasing, and Daily Development

    1. Release Numbering

    2. Release Branches

    3. Stabilizing a Release

    4. Packaging

    5. Testing and Releasing

    6. Maintaining Multiple Release Lines

    7. Releases and Daily Development

  8. Chapter 8 Managing Volunteers

    1. Getting the Most Out of Volunteers

    2. Share Management Tasks as Well as Technical Tasks

    3. Transitions

    4. Committers

    5. Credit

    6. Forks

  9. Chapter 9 Licenses, Copyrights, and Patents

    1. Terminology

    2. Aspects of Licenses

    3. The GPL and License Compatibility

    4. Choosing a License

    5. Copyright Assignment and Ownership

    6. Dual Licensing Schemes

    7. Patents

    8. Further Resources

  1. Appendix A Free Version Control Systems

    1. Subversion

    2. SVK

    3. Arch

    4. monotone

    5. Codeville

    6. Vesta

    7. Darcs

    8. Aegis

    9. CVSNT

    10. Meta-CVS

    11. OpenCM

    12. Stellation

    13. PRCS

    14. Bazaar

    15. Bazaar-NG

    16. ArX

    17. SourceJammer

    18. FastCST

    19. GIT

    20. Superversion

  2. Appendix B Free Bug Trackers

    1. Bugzilla

    2. GNATS

    3. RT

    4. Trac

    5. Roundup

    6. Mantis

    7. Scarab

    8. DBTS

    9. Trouble-Ticket Trackers

    10. BTT

  3. Appendix C Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?

  4. Appendix D Example Instructions for Reporting Bugs

  5. Colophon

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Product Details
Title:
Producing Open Source Software
By:
Karl Fogel
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Ebook
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
October 2005
Ebook Release:
February 2009
Pages:
304
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-00759-1
| ISBN 10:
0-596-00759-0
Ebook ISBN:
978-0-596-10502-0
| ISBN 10:
0-596-10502-9
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About the Author

  1. Karl Fogel

    In 1995, Karl Fogel co-founded Cyclic Software, a company offering commercial CVS support. In 1999 he added support for CVS anonymous read-only repository access, inaugurating a new standard for access to development sources in open source projects. That same year, he wrote "Open Source Development With CVS" (published by Coriolis), now in its third edition via Paraglyph Press. Since early 2000, he has worked for CollabNet, Inc, managing the creation and development of Subversion, a version control system written from scratch by CollabNet and a team of open source volunteers, and meant to replace CVS as the de facto standard among open source projects. He also participates in various other open source projects as a module maintainer, patch contributor, and documentation writer.

    View Karl Fogel's full profile page.

Colophon

Mary Anne Weeks Mayo was the production editor and Chris Downey was the copyeditor for Producing Open Source Software. Sada Preisch proofread the book. Claire Cloutier provided quality control. John Bickelhaupt wrote the index. Mike Kohnke designed the cover of this book. Karen Montgomery produced the cover layout in Adobe InDesign CS using Akzidenz Grotesk and Orator fonts. Phyllis McKee designed the interior layout and the template. This book was converted by Andrew Savikas to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Adobe's Meridien; the heading font is ITC Bailey.

  • Book cover of Producing Open Source Software
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