Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
ISBN: 0596007590
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 137
Pages: 137
Authors: Karl Fogel
- 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
Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project
ISBN: 0596007590
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 137
Pages: 137
Authors: Karl Fogel