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Open Source Project Management Lessons

Posted by timothy on from the herding-cats dept.

cpfeifer writes "Paul Baranowski takes a moment to reflect on Open Source Project Management in his blog. His reflections are based on the first two years of the Peek-a-booty project." Interesting comments on media coverage, choice of programming language, when to release a project, and more.

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  1. I bet... by macshune · · Score: 5, Funny

    The peek-a-booty project is a lot less interesting than I would imagine...

  2. Compilation time bounds productivity? by BreadMan · · Score: 5, Funny

    It requires compilation - as your code grows larger, the wait time to see if your code works increases.

    Everyone knows that once your code compiles, it will work!
  3. An excerpt by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 5, Funny

    June 14, 2003

    Dear diary,

    I have decided to record my thoughts on managing the project "peek-a-booty". The most important lesson I've learned is not to use booty in a project name!

    Sure, it was funny two years ago after a few beers, but I swear the next person that makes a "booty" joke will die. I'm serious. "Dude, is it for peeking up skirts?" "Hey, if you integrate telephony you can call it 'peek-a-booty-call'"

    In other news, I'm starting a new project to manipulate network traffic, this time using Java. I'm thinking of calling it 'jAck Off'. I like the sound of that. It will be good to get that whole 'booty' thing behind me...