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There are books written about open source development. Don’t confuse somebody dumping source files on Github with open source development.
by abiro 6y ago
There are books written about open source development. Don’t confuse somebody dumping source files on Github with open source development.
- oblio 6y agoThere are a gazillion ways to develop open source. It's more like an ethos than a methodology.
- marcosdumay 6y ago> There are a gazillion ways to develop open source. Yet every large project behaves in a similar way, with only a few larger variations.
- oblio 6y agoThat's why one of the seminal books about Open Source is the Cathedral and the Bazaar? Because "there is only one way to do things"? :-)
- marcosdumay 6y agoHum... The Bazaar on that book is a very specific way to do things. So specific that I don't think anybody really follows it.
- watwut 6y agoYeah, and that does not mean those books describe how open source projects function in reality. But they should, how things are done changes.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> There are books written about open source development There are books written about different authors idealizations of how to do open source development. The fact that many people have written about different methodologies for approaching a particular challenge doesn’t make the challenge a methodology. And, yes, I am aware that the very approach known as “the bazaar” (from the essay “The Cathedral and the Bazaar”) is sometimes referred to erroneously as “open source development”, which is a particularly glaring error since all of the examples of both “cathedral” and “bazaar” development were open source projects.