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Producing Open Source Software: Social and Political Infrastructure

Overview This paper tries to show the structural underpinnings successful projects have in common. "Successful" not just in terms of technical quality, but also operational health and survivability. Operational health is the project's ongoing ability to incorporate new code contributions and new developers, and to be responsive to incoming bug reports. Survivability is the project's ability to exist independently of any individual participant or sponsor - think of it as the likelihood that the project would continue even if all of its founding members were to move on to other things. Technical success is not hard to achieve, but without a robust developer base and social foundation, a project may be unable to handle the growth that initial success brings, or the departure of charismatic individuals.

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Publisher	O'Reilly Media	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2005
Format	Book chapters
Topics	Infrastructure Management

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