Producing Open Source Software

Producing Open Source Software
by Karl Fogel
Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: October 2005
ISBN: 0-596-00759-0
Pages: 302

Chapter 1. Introduction

Section 1.1. History

Section 1.2. The Situation Today

Chapter 2. Getting Started

Section 2.1. First, Look Around

Section 2.2. Starting from What You Have

Section 2.3. Choosing a License and Applying It

Section 2.4. Setting the Tone

Section 2.5. Announcing

Chapter 3. Technical Infrastructure

Section 3.1. What a Project Needs

Section 3.2. Mailing Lists

Section 3.3. Version Control

Section 3.4. Bug Tracker

Section 3.5. IRC/Real-Time Chat Systems

Section 3.6. Wikis

Section 3.7. Web Site

Chapter 4. Social and Political Infrastructure

Section 4.1. Forkability

Section 4.2. Benevolent Dictators

Section 4.3. Consensus-Based Democracy

Section 4.4. Writing It All Down

Chapter 5. Money

Section 5.1. Types of Involvement

Section 5.2. Hire for the Long Term

Section 5.3. Appear as Many, Not as One

Section 5.4. Be Open About Your Motivations

Section 5.5. Money Can't Buy You Love

Section 5.6. Contracting

Section 5.7. Funding Non-Programming Activities

Section 5.8. Marketing

Chapter 6. Communications

Section 6.1. You Are What You Write

Section 6.2. Avoiding Common Pitfalls

Section 6.3. Difficult People

Section 6.4. Handling Growth

Section 6.5. No Conversations in the Bug Tracker

Section 6.6. Publicity

Chapter 7. Packaging, Releasing, and Daily Development

Section 7.1. Release Numbering

Section 7.2. Release Branches

Section 7.3. Stabilizing a Release

Section 7.4. Packaging

Section 7.5. Testing and Releasing

Section 7.6. Maintaining Multiple Release Lines

Section 7.7. Releases and Daily Development

Chapter 8. Managing Volunteers

Section 8.1. Getting the Most Out of Volunteers

Section 8.2. Share Management Tasks as Well as Technical Tasks

Section 8.3. Transitions

Section 8.4. Committers

Section 8.5. Credit

Section 8.6. Forks

Chapter 9. Licenses, Copyrights, and Patents

Section 9.1. Terminology

Section 9.2. Aspects of Licenses

Section 9.3. The GPL and License Compatibility

Section 9.4. Choosing a License

Section 9.5. Copyright Assignment and Ownership

Section 9.6. Dual Licensing Schemes

Section 9.7. Patents

Section 9.8. Further Resources

Appendix A. Free Version Control Systems

Section A.1. Subversion

Section A.2. SVK

Section A.3. Arch

Section A.4. monotone

Section A.5. Codeville

Section A.6. Vesta

Section A.7. Darcs

Section A.8. Aegis

Section A.9. CVSNT

Section A.10. Meta-CVS

Section A.11. OpenCM

Section A.12. Stellation

Section A.13. PRCS

Section A.14. Bazaar

Section A.15. Bazaar-NG

Section A.16. ArX

Section A.17. SourceJammer

Section A.18. FastCST

Section A.19. GIT

Section A.20. Superversion

Appendix B. Free Bug Trackers

Section B.1. Bugzilla

Section B.2. GNATS

Section B.3. RT

Section B.4. Trac

Section B.5. Roundup

Section B.6. Mantis

Section B.7. Scarab

Section B.8. DBTS

Section B.9. Trouble-Ticket Trackers

Section B.10. BTT