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Free Software Project Management HOWTO

Benjamin "Mako" Hill

      mako@debian.org
    

Revision History
Revision v0.3.2 15 April 2002 Revised by: bch
Revision v0.3.1 18 June 2001 Revised by: bch
Revision v0.3 5 May 2001 Revised by: bch
Revision v0.2.1 10 April 2001 Revised by: bch
Revision v0.2 8 April 2001 Revised by: bch
Revision v0.01 27 March 2001 Revised by: bch
Initial Release

This HOWTO is designed for people with experience in programming and some skills in managing a software project but who are new to the world of free software. This document is meant to act as a guide to the non-technical aspects of free software project management and was written to be a crash course in the people skills that aren't taught to commercial coders but that can make or break a free software project.

Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1. Copyright Information
1.2. Disclaimer
1.3. New Versions
1.4. Credits
1.5. Feedback
1.6. Translations
2. Starting a Project
2.1. Choosing a Project
2.2. Naming your project
2.3. Licensing your Software
2.4. Choosing a Method of Version Numbering
2.5. Documentation
2.6. Other Presentation Issues
3. Maintaining a Project: Interacting with Developers
3.1. Delegating Work
3.2. Accepting and Rejecting Patches
3.3. Stable and Development Branches
3.4. Other Project Management issues
3.5. Forks
4. Maintaining a Project: Interacting with Users
4.1. Testing and Testers
4.2. Setting up Support Infrastructure
4.3. Releasing Your Program
4.4. Announcing Your Project
Bibliography
A. GNU Free Documentation License
A.1. 0. PREAMBLE
A.2. 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
A.3. 2. VERBATIM COPYING
A.4. 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
A.5. 4. MODIFICATIONS
A.6. 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
A.7. 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
A.8. 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
A.9. 8. TRANSLATION
A.10. 9. TERMINATION
A.11. 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
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