Hi T. F., On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 23:55:54 -0400 [email protected] wrote:
> > I been asked to help take a fairly extensive body of code and > release it as an open source project. > > I'm wondering if someone can point me to some resources that > might guide us along this process? See: 1. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/How_to_start_contributing_to_or_using_Open_Source_Software 2. http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/foss-other-beasts/ 3. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html 4. http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ If you're interested in hosting a Mercurial repository (note that cloning it there will also make all the history available, due to Mercurial's distributed nature) look at one of those: 1. https://bitbucket.org/ . 2. http://code.google.com/ . 3. http://sourceforge.net/ . 4. There are more here which may be suitable: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities . You'll also need to pick up an open-source licence for the code. > > My collaborators have a body of code used for physics simulation. > It's all under Mercurial for internal management. They want to > distribute it under an open source model, while maintaining control > of the "official" version. > Well, what do you mean by "maintaining control"? If you just want to make sure nobody else will be able to release releases under the official name, then this is normally a given, and is enforce by licences such as http://www.perlfoundation.org/artistic_license_2_0 . Do you mean anything else? Regards, Shlomi Fish > Any pointers, guidelines, or advice would be appreciated. > > T. F. Pawlicki > Dept. Computer Science > University of Rochester > _______________________________________________ > tos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Understand what Open Source is - http://shlom.in/oss-fs English spelling aims to be consistent. Publicly and methodically. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ tos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
