Thanks for the information, I'll keep my eyes open for the book next time 
I'm in the bookstore (just about every day, such a junkie am I).

Regards,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Iain Duncan" 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 2:46 PM
Subject: [Cs-dev] A must read for everyone ( IMHO )


> Hey all, I just purchased the new O'Reilly book by Karl Fogel, "Producing 
> Open Source Software: How to run a successful free software project." ( 
> Says copyright 2006, um, right guys ... )
>
> IMHO it is worth it's weight in gold and would benefit all of us and the 
> csound dev and user community if everyone were to read it and think about 
> some of the issues he brings up. He is one of the developers ( or has 
> been ) for CVS, Subversion, Emacs, and numerous other projects. The book 
> superbly handles the technical side and manegerial/interpersonal side of 
> developing open source.
>
> Some of the topics include:
> - licensing
> - technical infrastructure: mailing lists, versioning, bug tracking, using 
> web, wiki, irc effectively
> - forkability, types of management heirarchy, project consesus and 
> democracy
> - communication among developers
> - packaging and releasing
> - managing volunteers.
>
> Not that I think the csound dev community is not already doing a good job, 
> but at $25.00 US, this book is a steal, and as a long time observer of the 
> csound dev scene, I can say with some certainty that there is some great 
> stuff in this book and cause for thought for everyone. The real strong 
> point is his superb coverage of human issues. IMHO we would all improve 
> our relations and productivity by adopting some of his policies and 
> practices, and the real world examples are excellent.
>
> Thanks
> Iain
>
>
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If you are a Safari member ( O'reilly online e-book library thingy ) it 
is on there too.

Iain

Michael Gogins wrote:
> Thanks for the information, I'll keep my eyes open for the book next 
> time I'm in the bookstore (just about every day, such a junkie am I).
> 
> Regards,
> Mike
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Iain Duncan" 
> To: 
> Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 2:46 PM
> Subject: [Cs-dev] A must read for everyone ( IMHO )
> 
> 
>> Hey all, I just purchased the new O'Reilly book by Karl Fogel, 
>> "Producing Open Source Software: How to run a successful free software 
>> project." ( Says copyright 2006, um, right guys ... )
>>
>> IMHO it is worth it's weight in gold and would benefit all of us and 
>> the csound dev and user community if everyone were to read it and 
>> think about some of the issues he brings up. He is one of the 
>> developers ( or has been ) for CVS, Subversion, Emacs, and numerous 
>> other projects. The book superbly handles the technical side and 
>> manegerial/interpersonal side of developing open source.
>>
>> Some of the topics include:
>> - licensing
>> - technical infrastructure: mailing lists, versioning, bug tracking, 
>> using web, wiki, irc effectively
>> - forkability, types of management heirarchy, project consesus and 
>> democracy
>> - communication among developers
>> - packaging and releasing
>> - managing volunteers.
>>
>> Not that I think the csound dev community is not already doing a good 
>> job, but at $25.00 US, this book is a steal, and as a long time 
>> observer of the csound dev scene, I can say with some certainty that 
>> there is some great stuff in this book and cause for thought for 
>> everyone. The real strong point is his superb coverage of human 
>> issues. IMHO we would all improve our relations and productivity by 
>> adopting some of his policies and practices, and the real world 
>> examples are excellent.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Iain
>>
>>
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