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Travis,

Cheers for the links, I'm printing Chapter 1 of Producing OSS right now. It
looks like a good resource...


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ARGCRP-CARLSON, TRAVIS [mailto:TCARLSON@...]
> Sent: 30 January 2006 21:52
> To: dev@...
> Subject: [mule-dev] Recommended Reading
>
> Fellow developers,
>
> I just finished reading the book "Producing Open Source Software" by
> Karl Fogel (http://producingoss.com) and I highly recommend it for
> anyone working on open source software or interested in the subject.
> The author is a full-time developer on the Subversion project and his
> insight comes from practical lessons learned from that role.
>
> For those familiar with "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"
> (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/), Fogel's book is
> in the same vein but more extensive, brought up to the year 2006, and
> without Eric Raymond's eccentricity. ;-)
>
> I was impressed by the well-roundedness of the book: it covers not only
> the technical aspects but social and political issues, effective
> communications, balancing volunteers with professional contributors, and
> all the things which make managing an open source project unlike
> traditional project management.
>
> Reading it made me think of all sorts of things which could make Mule a
> more successful OSS project.  I'll try to prepare a list of ideas so we
> can discuss them together.
>
> Travis
>
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