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Producing Open Source Software - the book
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Apr 12th 2006 at 9:00AM
Karl Fogel is no stranger to open source development. He makes a living
writing programs (and enjoys playing piano as well). In fact, Karl spent 5 years toiling on the Subversion project. So he took his experience, zoomed way out of the process,
and explains it all in a book: Producing Open Source Software. It's very
well-written, in plain words, and cuts to the heart of the matter: herding squirrels. Not really, but there is a lot of
great info on the purpose, point, and procedures common to open source software. I'll agree with Karl, it's too easy to
just say it's fun to write apps, and hope to slap together a group to do just that. Great read for those of you looking
to get into the oss world. By the way, you can buy the book from O'Reilly, but the link I provided will also take you
the PDF and other ebook format versions...
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They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
