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

ISBN: 0596007590
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2004
Pages: 137

Authors: Karl Fogel

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• Producing Open Source Software
• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Copyright
• Foreword
• Preface
• Why Write This Book?
• Who Should Read This Book?
• How to Use This Book
• Sources
• Conventions
• Comments and Questions
• Safari Enabled
• Acknowledgments
• Disclaimer
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• 1.1. History
• 1.2. The Situation Today
• Chapter 2. Getting Started
• 2.1. First, Look Around
• 2.2. Starting from What You Have
• 2.3. Choosing a License and Applying It
• 2.4. Setting the Tone
• 2.5. Announcing
• Chapter 3. Technical Infrastructure
• 3.1. What a Project Needs
• 3.2. Mailing Lists
• 3.3. Version Control
• 3.4. Bug Tracker
• 3.5. IRCReal-Time Chat Systems
• 3.6. Wikis
• 3.7. Web Site
• Chapter 4. Social and Political Infrastructure
• 4.1. Forkability
• 4.2. Benevolent Dictators
• 4.3. Consensus-Based Democracy
• 4.4. Writing It All Down
• Chapter 5. Money
• 5.1. Types of Involvement
• 5.2. Hire for the Long Term
• 5.3. Appear as Many, Not as One
• 5.4. Be Open About Your Motivations
• 5.5. Money Can t Buy You Love
• 5.6. Contracting
• 5.7. Funding Non-Programming Activities
• 5.8. Marketing
• Chapter 6. Communications
• 6.1. You Are What You Write
• 6.2. Avoiding Common Pitfalls
• 6.3. Difficult People
• 6.4. Handling Growth
• 6.5. No Conversations in the Bug Tracker
• 6.6. Publicity
• Chapter 7. Packaging, Releasing, and Daily Development
• 7.1. Release Numbering
• 7.2. Release Branches
• 7.3. Stabilizing a Release
• 7.4. Packaging
• 7.5. Testing and Releasing
• 7.6. Maintaining Multiple Release Lines
• 7.7. Releases and Daily Development
• Chapter 8. Managing Volunteers
• 8.1. Getting the Most Out of Volunteers
• 8.2. Share Management Tasks as Well as Technical Tasks
• 8.3. Transitions
• 8.4. Committers
• 8.5. Credit
• 8.6. Forks
• Chapter 9. Licenses, Copyrights, and Patents
• 9.1. Terminology
• 9.2. Aspects of Licenses
• 9.3. The GPL and License Compatibility
• 9.4. Choosing a License
• 9.5. Copyright Assignment and Ownership
• 9.6. Dual Licensing Schemes
• 9.7. Patents
• 9.8. Further Resources
• Appendix A. Free Version Control Systems
• A.1. Subversion
• A.2. SVK
• A.3. Arch
• A.4. monotone
• A.5. Codeville
• A.6. Vesta
• A.7. Darcs
• A.8. Aegis
• A.9. CVSNT
• A.10. Meta-CVS
• A.11. OpenCM
• A.12. Stellation
• A.13. PRCS
• A.14. Bazaar
• A.15. Bazaar-NG
• A.16. ArX
• A.17. SourceJammer
• A.18. FastCST
• A.19. GIT
• A.20. Superversion
• Appendix B. Free Bug Trackers
• B.1. Bugzilla
• B.2. GNATS
• B.3. RT
• B.4. Trac
• B.5. Roundup
• B.6. Mantis
• B.7. Scarab
• B.8. DBTS
• B.9. Trouble-Ticket Trackers
• B.10. BTT
• Appendix C. Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?
• Appendix D. Example Instructions for Reporting Bugs
• Colophon
• Index
• index_A
• index_B
• index_C
• index_D
• index_E
• index_F
• index_G
• index_H
• index_I
• index_K
• index_L
• index_M
• index_O
• index_P
• index_Q
• index_R
• index_S
• index_T
• index_U
• index_V
• index_W
• index_X
• index_Z