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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. Project management Lessons by stanmann · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Is Open source project management really that much different from any other project management?

    don't release before it does something useful

    This is a rule in "traditional" project management too.

    and the other lessons read just like Project Management 101 too. I would have loved to have seen something insightful or interesting about how open source changes the development environment or the management environment from single location to distributed, but no such luck.
    --
    Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
  2. Re:"C/C++ is no longer a viable development langua by hackrobat · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I work at Oracle. C++ is banned here. Apparently, Oracle software runs on more platforms than there are C++ compilers for. Therefore, C++ is a strict no-no. The internal C coding standards doc reads somewhat like this:
    1. Don't write C++.
    2. If you've already written C++, rewrite in C.
    :-)

    So it's either C, or Java (lately). Anything else is considered as scripting (Perl, Shell, SQL).