Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project

by Karl Fogel

Overview

This outline covers the history and organization of the federal and state judicial systems; the criminal and civil court processes; the background, qualifications, and selection of federal judges; the role of other participants (lawyers, defendants, interest groups) in the judicial process; and the implementation and impact of judicial policies. Contents: 1) History and Organization of State Judicial System. 2) History and Organization of the Federal Judicial System. 3) Jurisdiction and Policy-Making Boundaries. 4) Lawyers, Litigants, and Interest Groups in the Judicial Process. 5) U.S. Criminal Court Process. 6) U.S. Civil Court Process. 7) Federal Judges. 8) Implementation and Impact of Judicial Policies. Also contains a Glossary and the full text of the US Constitution and Amendments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781616100636
Publisher:	University Press of Florida
Publication date:	09/24/2009
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

In 1995, Karl Fogel co-founded Cyclic Software, a company offering commercial CVS support. In 1999 he added support for CVS anonymous read-only repository access, inaugurating a new standard for access to development sources in open source projects. That same year, he wrote "Open Source Development With CVS" (published by Coriolis), now in its third edition via Paraglyph Press.

Since early 2000, he has worked for CollabNet, Inc, managing the creation and development of Subversion, a version control system written from scratch by CollabNet and a team of open source volunteers, and meant to replace CVS as the de facto standard among open source projects. He also participates in various other open source projects as a module maintainer, patch contributor, and documentation writer.

Table of Contents

Dedication; Foreword; Preface; Why Write This Book?; Who Should Read This Book?; How to Use This Book; Sources; Conventions; Comments and Questions; Safari Enabled; Acknowledgments; Disclaimer; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 History; 1.2 The Situation Today; Chapter 2: Getting Started; 2.1 First, Look Around; 2.2 Starting from What You Have; 2.3 Choosing a License and Applying It; 2.4 Setting the Tone; 2.5 Announcing; Chapter 3: Technical Infrastructure; 3.1 What a Project Needs; 3.2 Mailing Lists; 3.3 Version Control; 3.4 Bug Tracker; 3.5 IRC/Real-Time Chat Systems; 3.6 Wikis; 3.7 Web Site; Chapter 4: Social and Political Infrastructure; 4.1 Forkability; 4.2 Benevolent Dictators; 4.3 Consensus-Based Democracy; 4.4 Writing It All Down; Chapter 5: Money; 5.1 Types of Involvement; 5.2 Hire for the Long Term; 5.3 Appear as Many, Not as One; 5.4 Be Open About Your Motivations; 5.5 Money Can't Buy You Love; 5.6 Contracting; 5.7 Funding Non-Programming Activities; 5.8 Marketing; Chapter 6: Communications; 6.1 You Are What You Write; 6.2 Avoiding Common Pitfalls; 6.3 Difficult People; 6.4 Handling Growth; 6.5 No Conversations in the Bug Tracker; 6.6 Publicity; Chapter 7: Packaging, Releasing, and Daily Development; 7.1 Release Numbering; 7.2 Release Branches; 7.3 Stabilizing a Release; 7.4 Packaging; 7.5 Testing and Releasing; 7.6 Maintaining Multiple Release Lines; 7.7 Releases and Daily Development; Chapter 8: Managing Volunteers; 8.1 Getting the Most Out of Volunteers; 8.2 Share Management Tasks as Well as Technical Tasks; 8.3 Transitions; 8.4 Committers; 8.5 Credit; 8.6 Forks; Chapter 9: Licenses, Copyrights, and Patents; 9.1 Terminology; 9.2 Aspects of Licenses; 9.3 The GPL and License Compatibility; 9.4 Choosing a License; 9.5 Copyright Assignment and Ownership; 9.6 Dual Licensing Schemes; 9.7 Patents; 9.8 Further Resources; Appendix A: Free Version Control Systems; A.1 Subversion; A.2 SVK; A.3 Arch; A.4 monotone; A.5 Codeville; A.6 Vesta; A.7 Darcs; A.8 Aegis; A.9 CVSNT; A.10 Meta-CVS; A.11 OpenCM; A.12 Stellation; A.13 PRCS; A.14 Bazaar; A.15 Bazaar-NG; A.16 ArX; A.17 SourceJammer; A.18 FastCST; A.19 GIT; A.20 Superversion; Appendix B: Free Bug Trackers; B.1 Bugzilla; B.2 GNATS; B.3 RT; B.4 Trac; B.5 Roundup; B.6 Mantis; B.7 Scarab; B.8 DBTS; B.9 Trouble-Ticket Trackers; B.10 BTT; Appendix C: Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?; Appendix D: Example Instructions for Reporting Bugs; Colophon;