How does open source development projects, including lots of small and
large developers in many different places, manage their development?
How do they ensure that reliable code is available, that new additions
are accepted or rejected before inclusion on the code base, etc.
Hi
One great resource that encompases all of your questions is OSCOM -
The international association for Open Source Content Management:
"OSCOM - The international association for Open Source Content Management
OSCOM is the international association connecting users and developers
of Open Source Content Management solutions.
OSCOM organizes events, promotes standards and undertakes projects to
further the state of the art of Open Source Content Management. OSCOM
promotes Open Source Content Management solutions as powerful,
affordable and flexible replacements for proprietary products."
http://www.oscom.org/standards/
WebDAV Resources "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It
is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to
collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers:
http://webdav.org/
The Atom Project: "Atom is a simple way to read and write information
on the web, allowing you to easily keep track of more sites in less
time, and to seamlessly share your words and ideas by publishing to
the web.
Created by leading service providers, tool vendors and independent
developers, Atom is designed to be a universal publishing standard for
personal content and weblogs."
http://www.atomenabled.org/
Standardize API to access content repositories such as in JavaTM 2
independently of implementation:
http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=170
Another resource for Open Source Management is dotProject.net:
http://www.dotproject.net/
"Originally commenced in 2000 by dotmarketing.org, dotProject was
developed as a state of the art Project Management tool from the
start.
The original theme (still available in the first release of 2005)
flagged dotProject as an open source alternative to Microsoft products
and other expensive, commercial applications.
Right from the start, dotProject had, as it's core aims a number of
simple requirements:
* Clean, simple and consistent user interface;
* Project Management functionality - not another CMS, groupware
environment or all things to all people collaboration tool, but a
project management environment;
* Open source / open access / free usage.
And right up until the current day, these aims remain the core aim of
the current administration team.
Sure, we still have some functionality that is required, but over the
years, dotProject has undergone some formidable updates, additions and
code changes and we fully intend to keep that activity up, with the
ongoing support of our user community.
Features Include
User Management
Email based trouble Ticket System, (Integrated voxel.net's ticketsmith)
Client/Company Management
Project listings
Hierarchical Task List
File Repository
Contact List
Calendar
Discussion Forum
Resource Based Permissions "
Another interesting article related to Open source management:
"if you are creating a new infrastructure, it is akin to building a
new house. Like a builder, you are afforded the opportunity to choose
building materials that provide the best long-term benefits. From this
vantage point, it is important to gauge the organization's tolerance
for vendor lock-in. For precisely the reasons described in the
previous paragraph, commercial software choices put practical
limitations on future choices. On the other hand, some organizations
find locking in with the right vendor offers a kind of efficiency, and
having a single shoulder to cry on brings solace to some"
http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/3518586
This is not a request for clarification, just a note for the archives
that I found another good reference on the same topic. The book "Open
Source Development with CVS", although mainly about the use of CVS,
has some good chapters about open source management in general. It can
be downloded freely from
http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/OSDevWithCVS_3E.pdf.
Good source. Thanks for the 5 star rating!
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