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Cracking the open-source community code for drive-by developers
Jack Repenning, CTO of Collabnet, takes issue with my complaint that contributing code to open-source projects is hard. Jack’s suggestion that “while community membership requires more than ‘casual contribution,’ you shouldn’t have to ‘become a key member’” in order to play a part is fair and spot-on. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really tackle the big issue.
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Contributing to open source is not as easy as it looks
Giving code back to an open-source community can be like giving a gift when you don’t know the cultural rules: There’s always a chance your basket of code won’t be accepted. At the same time, fresh open-source projects can wither on the vine if not properly tended. Therefore, it is prudent for enterprise developers to [...]
The difficulty inherent in managing an open-source community
I’ve heard the open-source search engine, Simplexo, come up twice in conversation this week, and so was interested to dig a deeper into what Simplexo offers. My own company, Alfresco, has worked with Lucene, another open-source search engine, for the past few years and has been both pleased and disappointed with its capabilities, but I’ve [...]