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Distributed Development, with Karl Fogel

Posted by Hemos on from the building-the-new-versioning-control dept.

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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  1. HERE'S THE ARTICLE TEXT!! by putko · · Score: 3, Funny

    Interview with Karl Fogel of Subversion and CollabNet
    J. Chalifour - July 27, 2005

    Introduction

    Karl Fogel is a founding developer of the Subversion project. Subversion is sponsored by CollabNet and under the company's employ, Karl describes himself as the CollabNet-to-developer liaison. In the following, Karl explains the inception of the open source Subversion project, what it has required to build its community, and what he has learned in order to successfully maintain it. Karl's vantage is interesting not just from the perspective of managing such a community but also because the Subversion project itself is one of the required sorts of software technologies used in open source development...

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    WAY TO GO, GUYS!

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    http://www.thebricktestament.com/the_law/when_to_s tone_your_children/dt21_18a.html
  2. You have to wonder... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 3, Funny

    What happens when a project becomes both disturbing and subverted? Go figure.

  3. Re:WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Thanks, they'll reward us with another Roland Piquepaille article for your complaint.

  4. Re:partial Translation was Re:Here's the text -- by Pete · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think this qualifies as possibly the weirdest >0-rated (well, at the moment) slashdot post I've seen for a while. I reckon it deserves a special "delusional-nutcase-fantasy" mod tag :).