Free/Open Source Project Management

[Lucas Gonzalez]

http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2005022100126OSDV

"Leaders from three separate but related -- and incredibly successful
-- free/open source projects agree: If you want the project to move to
the next level, let go and let the community take over. We asked Larry
Wall, creator of Perl; Brian Behlendorf, the Apache Project leader; and
Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, for their thoughts on why this
happens and how they and their projects have fared as a result."

Of course these software developers are special (not like HO's software
person friend), and what they do is not open space anyway - or is it?

Oh, yes, 4 principles and 1 law would be a way to check how "open
spacey" is software developement.  I don't know if there's a nice
1-to-1 mapping of "ways to put it" between principles and law and how
people express these profound truths in software developement.  In any
case, here are some of the expressions common in free-open source
software developement (Eric S Raymand has written extensively about it
in "the cathedral and the bazaar" etc):

- "developers scratch their own itch"
- "when it's ready, it's ready"
- "release (code) early, release often"
- you're free to use, modify, make copies (of the code)
- a thousand eyeballs discover "bugs" (in the code)
- contributors are free to contribute
- mantainers and coders are free to "fork" (ie create a different
branch)

In software there are "benevolent dictators" (Linus Torvalds is said to
be one) - would those be the people who write their issues and their
names on The Wall?

Lucas



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