Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project

Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project

by Karl Fogel

eBook Details:

Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc 2007
ISBN/ASIN: 0596007590
ISBN-13: 9780596007591
Number of pages: 192

eBook Description:
This book is meant for software developers and managers who are considering starting an open source project, or who have started one and are wondering what to do now. It should also be helpful for people who just want to participate in an open source project but have never done so before. Free software projects have evolved a distinct culture, an ethos in which the liberty to make the software does anything one wants is a central tenet, and yet the result of this liberty is not a scattering of individuals each going their own separate way with the code, but enthusiastic collaboration. Indeed, competence at cooperation itself is one of the most highly valued skills in free software. To manage these projects is to engage in a kind of hypertrophied cooperation, where one’s ability not only to work with others but to come up with new ways of working together can result in tangible benefits to the software. This book attempts to describe the techniques by which this may be done. It is by no means complete, but it is at least a beginning.