Re: GNU Methodology?

[Russ Allbery <rra at stanford dot edu>]

Soubhik Bhattacharya <soubhik@cse.iitk.ac.in> writes:

> i'm subscribing to this list for a couple of months and following your
> development process. from what i've understood, i think, your way of
> developing software shud qualify as a unique methodology. the whole
> process is managed by techies and there's nothing like marketing or hr
> management. also the synergy of a large and apparently chaotic community
> of developers distributed over the globe, which keeps yeilding quality
> software products, is simply amazing. the process that you follow is
> capable of tolerating unpredictable and part-time nature of the
> developers and in short, recognizes their individuality and freedom. i
> just want to know whether any attempt has been made to document this
> methodology and your experiences of implementing it. such a document
> will surely benifit a lot of organizations.

See <http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/> for one such
attempt at documenting the process behind most free software or open
source efforts.  See also <http://www.gnu.org/> for extensive information
about the GNU project; under "How you can help us get there" are more
specific documents about the standards and processes of developing
software for the GNU project.

There is a growing amount of literature available on the general topic of
free software development; a web search for "free software" or "open
source" will turn up quite a lot of it.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>