Producing Open Source Software
Plug: Producing Open Source Software, a new book by Karl Fogel (of the Subversion and CVS projects), readable online as HTML or in ground-up wood formats.
It’s got a whole load of solid-gold good advice on open-source development best practices, and even includes a section on dealing with the dreaded Reply-To munging issue.
Looks excellent — this is definitely one to read.
Tags: best-practices, books, karl-fogel, open-source, projects, via:nat
Yoav Shapira said,
November 2, 2005 @ 3:03 pm
It’s a good book indeed, well worth reading. I enjoyed reviewing it — it was excellent even in first draft form. Kudos to Karl…
Matt Sergeant said,
November 2, 2005 @ 7:45 pm
Interestingly regarding reply-to it says:
An even better solution would be for Reply-to munging to be a per-subscriber preference. Those who want the list to set Reply-to munged (either on others’ posts or on their own posts) could ask for that, and those who don’t would ask for Reply-to to be left alone. However, I don’t know of any list management software that offers this on a per-subscriber basis. For now, we seem to be stuck with a global setting.
That was the main motivation behind the perl Siesta software.
Justin said,
November 2, 2005 @ 8:25 pm
Siesta looks like fun. Someday I’ll have zillions of tuits and can start hacking on The Better MLM ;)