Distributed Development, with Karl Fogel

phyjcowl writes "Karl Fogel is a founding developer of the Subversion project. In the following interview he covers social aspects of coordinating developers as well as the difficulties and advantages of managing an open source, distributed development project. Karl explains the inception of the Subversion project, what it has required to build its community, and what he has learned in order to successfully maintain it."

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Re:WTF

[kesuki]

People get punished for suggesting slashvertisments exist?

you should read my 'translation' of the article text ;) it's not just a slashvertisment, it's a desperate bid to rake in cash from VCs and con open source developers to write a 'pay to use it' CVS system...

instead of you know, improving another CVS to the point where it could be used by say Linus Iorvalds

my translation is a little 'fast' and loose to make it funnier, but there is a grain of truth in it. This companies CVS product was an open source 'free as in beer' project for a while, they basically forked CVS and then improved on it.. until everyone, even linus torvalds was using it, then bam in came the license changes and now they're nailing everyone they can for cash...but alot of people got upset, and torvalds was even considering switching to a FLOSS based CVS program... i can't rmeember what happened there though ^^;