BarCampRDU 2008 Running Open Source Projects
@ 2008-08-02 13:49:29
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Apache does everything (EVERYTHING) on a mailing list. Most of their stuff is Java with a lot of guys working on each project (I guess you have to with Java ...). All decisions end up coming from the people who do the work. Even inside of companies opening up across groups can be very helpful even though (it sounds like) most companies keep everything locked down to the group (so group A can do A but group B and C need to write their own A which is very inefficient). Apache actually ends up acting like a cost sharing group to take commodity pieces and share the work. One of the biggest things to get contributes is to document how a person contributes. It also was noted that bug responses of 'he idiot you didn't give me all the info' is more of a geek issue rather than an open source issue. If you can cut out work for people it can help get contributors ... that way people know what needs to done. In most open source projects only take a small group to really want a feature to either do it and get it in or open a new project.
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Filed under: BarCampRDU
Apache does everything (EVERYTHING) on a mailing list. Most of their stuff is Java with a lot of guys working on each project (I guess you have to with Java ...). All decisions end up coming from the people who do the work. Even inside of companies opening up across groups can be very helpful even though (it sounds like) most companies keep everything locked down to the group (so group A can do A but group B and C need to write their own A which is very inefficient). Apache actually ends up acting like a cost sharing group to take commodity pieces and share the work. One of the biggest things to get contributes is to document how a person contributes. It also was noted that bug responses of 'he idiot you didn't give me all the info' is more of a geek issue rather than an open source issue. If you can cut out work for people it can help get contributors ... that way people know what needs to done. In most open source projects only take a small group to really want a feature to either do it and get it in or open a new project.
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