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February 6, 2006
How would you run an open source project?
Custard Melt is drawing to an end of it's initial development. From this point on the development of the software will probably be done as a combination of in house Greenpeace development, outsourced development and hopefully community input into the project. The question we're currently wrestling with is 'what's the best way to do this?'
If you've got any thoughts on what you'd be looking for, or indeed what your experiences of this have been let us know. We can think of lots of useful tools right now (Wiki's, discussion fora, mailing lists...) but we're less clear on the best way to handle things like code review and integration.
So, talk to us...
Posted by Martin Lloyd at February 6, 2006 11:39 AM
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I found the book "Producing Open Source Software" (http://producingoss.com/) to be extremely helpful. I'd recommend at least giving it a cursory read.
Posted by: Jacob Kaplan-Moss at February 6, 2006 3:15 PM
And available as a PDF, cool! Thanks for the tip.
Posted by: Martin at February 7, 2006 9:24 AM
By Karl Fogel I see, one of the primary creators of Subversion and one of the two authors of the Subversion Book.
Posted by: Ximon Eighteen at February 9, 2006 4:06 PM
I've actually started a OSS forum project for django, and would love to join forces with you guys on it.
The only issue i have with custard is that you have your app as a all or nothing type approach. have you given any thought of spliting the 'custard' app into several smaller apps.. for example .. taking th e user stuff and putting it into a 'user' app and the country/city stuff into another?
this might make it easier for people to re-use it, and attract more developers to your project.
Posted by: Ian Holsman at February 15, 2006 1:10 AM
We are certainly interested in the reusability of the Custard base developed so far. Perhaps you'd be interested in attempting such a split for us? ;-)
Posted by: Ximon Eighteen at February 20, 2006 9:01 AM