“How to Run a Successful Free Software Project” - Online book

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Interesting book about issues and solutions to problems affecting open source projects …

The open source book: “Producing Open Source Software”

“How to Run a Successful Free Software Project” by Karl Fogel

9 chapters and over 200 pages

Choosing a good name
Version control
bug tracking
creating developer guidelines
setting up communications channels
choosing a license
setting the tone of the project
joining or creating a Non-Profit Organization
the economics of open source
release engineering, packaging, nightly builds, etc
how to deal with fork A lot of good information packaged into this ebook

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http://producingoss.com/en/producingoss.pdf