Posts Tagged ‘open source’
Can Open Source Projects be Selfless?
Posted on October, 23 at 10:11 pm | Filed Under CM, Python
I had an interesting open source related discussion today. Could an open source project start up and sustain itself if the primary users of the software are not software developers and not able to directly contribute to the development of the project itself? What spawned this was the idea that open source projects grow out [...]
A Mistake to Use Open Source Version Control Tools?
Posted on October, 1 at 6:58 pm | Filed Under CM
I’m noticing that software shops from small mom and pop IS organizations to large Independent Software Vendors continue to adopt open source tools for version control and configuration management. I wonder if this is a mistake. Open source communities are very different from most software shops that write code for pay. While the open source [...]
Is product management missing from open source?
Posted on September, 9 at 3:32 pm | Filed Under Collaboration
I often get to work with product managers in software shops and its a pretty fun part of the business to work in. Configuration Management is fun and exciting and all … but it sure is nice to get upstream of the decision making process and help to mold and facilitate good process there. In [...]
