Recommended Reading

[ARGCRP-CARLSON, TRAVIS]

Fellow developers,

I just finished reading the book "Producing Open Source Software" by
Karl Fogel (http://producingoss.com) and I highly recommend it for
anyone working on open source software or interested in the subject.
The author is a full-time developer on the Subversion project and his
insight comes from practical lessons learned from that role.  

For those familiar with "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
(http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/), Fogel's book is
in the same vein but more extensive, brought up to the year 2006, and
without Eric Raymond's eccentricity. ;-)

I was impressed by the well-roundedness of the book: it covers not only
the technical aspects but social and political issues, effective
communications, balancing volunteers with professional contributors, and
all the things which make managing an open source project unlike
traditional project management.  

Reading it made me think of all sorts of things which could make Mule a
more successful OSS project.  I'll try to prepare a list of ideas so we
can discuss them together.  

Travis


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[Andrew Perepelytsya]

Great resource, Travis. At the same time, would you give us, the poor, some heads up time to be on the same page with you in order to produce a fruitful discussion? :))

Thanks for the link!
Andrew

On 1/30/06, ARGCRP-CARLSON, TRAVIS <TCARLSON@...> wrote:

Fellow developers,

I just finished reading the book "Producing Open Source Software" by
Karl Fogel (http://producingoss.com) and I highly recommend it for
anyone working on open source software or interested in the subject.
The author is a full-time developer on the Subversion project and his
insight comes from practical lessons learned from that role.

For those familiar with "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
( http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/), Fogel's book is
in the same vein but more extensive, brought up to the year 2006, and
without Eric Raymond's eccentricity. ;-)

I was impressed by the well-roundedness of the book: it covers not only
the technical aspects but social and political issues, effective
communications, balancing volunteers with professional contributors, and
all the things which make managing an open source project unlike
traditional project management.

Reading it made me think of all sorts of things which could make Mule a
more successful OSS project.  I'll try to prepare a list of ideas so we
can discuss them together.

Travis


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[Ross Mason-x]

Travis,

Cheers for the links, I'm printing Chapter 1 of Producing OSS right now. It
looks like a good resource...


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ARGCRP-CARLSON, TRAVIS [mailto:TCARLSON@...]
> Sent: 30 January 2006 21:52
> To: dev@...
> Subject: [mule-dev] Recommended Reading
>
> Fellow developers,
>
> I just finished reading the book "Producing Open Source Software" by
> Karl Fogel (http://producingoss.com) and I highly recommend it for
> anyone working on open source software or interested in the subject.
> The author is a full-time developer on the Subversion project and his
> insight comes from practical lessons learned from that role.
>
> For those familiar with "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
> (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/), Fogel's book is
> in the same vein but more extensive, brought up to the year 2006, and
> without Eric Raymond's eccentricity. ;-)
>
> I was impressed by the well-roundedness of the book: it covers not only
> the technical aspects but social and political issues, effective
> communications, balancing volunteers with professional contributors, and
> all the things which make managing an open source project unlike
> traditional project management.
>
> Reading it made me think of all sorts of things which could make Mule a
> more successful OSS project.  I'll try to prepare a list of ideas so we
> can discuss them together.
>
> Travis
>
>
> Esta comunicacion es confidencial y puede contener informacion cuya
> divulgacion este restringida por la ley o en virtud de obligaciones de
> confidencialidad asumidas por acuerdos escritos. Si usted no es su
> destinatario, por favor advierta que cualquier divulgacion, distribucion o
> copia de esta comunicacion le esta estrictamente prohibida. Si usted
> recibio este mail por error, agradeceremos tenga a bien informar esa
> circunstancia al remitente mediante comunicacion a la direccion de e-mail
> o al numero telefonico : (5411) 5170-0000, y le solicitamos asimismo que
> por favor proceda a borrarlo de su computadora. Por favor no copie ni use
> la informacion contenida en este mail para ningun proposito y no divulgue
> su contenido a ninguna otra persona.
>
>
> This communication is confidential and may contain information that is
> exempt from disclosure by law or pursuant to confidentiality obligations
> assumed by written agreement. If you are not the intended recipient,
> please note that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this
> communication is strictly prohibited. If you receive this e-mail in error,
> please notify the sender immediately at the electronic mail address or
> phone number : (5411) 5170-0000  and delete the information from your
> computer. Please do not copy or use it for any purpose nor disclose its
> contents to any other person.
>
>