Hello! Few weeks ago I came across a very interesting book: “Producing Open Source Software”, written by Karl Fogel. Karl has been actively taking part to many well-known open source projects and learned many things about how they function (or not) and how to make them correctly work (see http://www.red-bean.com/kfogel/ for a short bio).
His book is published under a free license. It can be freely downloaded from the book website: http://producingoss.com/ It has been translated into many languages (see http://producingoss.com/translations.html), showing how interesting it is. It can be purchased too as a (physical) book of about 300 pages – what I did, I bought the French version on FramaBook, 15€, not so much. I won't summarize it in this mail but honestly it is worth reading it if you feel concerned by the future of our project. You'll find in it advices about how to deal with contributors, how to communicate internally and externally, what should be public and not, what should the project manager do, how roles are distributed, why using given tools like SVN, IRC, mail, etc. For example I opened the IRC channel recently because this was indicated in this book :). I never had the idea before but, once read, it is obvious that this is a good way to contact us quickly without having to register anything and to talk together without creating kilometers of mails on our list. I also decided to switch as many personal emails as possible to the mailing list thanks to this book. Again, this is clearly the better way to proceed once the project has enough contributors. So I really invite you to have a look at this book and, if you're motivated by our project and have the time to read, then read it! We're still a young project and good advices can just bring us wisdom and long life, which we wish ;). I'm sure you'll like it. Cheers, JM. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
