Producing Open Source Software

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The corporate market is now embracing free, "open source" software like never before, as evidenced by the recent success of the technologies underlying LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). Each is the result of a publicly collaborative process among numerous developers who volunteer their time and energy to create better…

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1 author picked Producing Open Source Software as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Mike McQuaid

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This is from an older generation of open source development, pre-GitHub, but much of the advice here is still incredibly relevant and astute today, helping provide advice on the interpersonal as well as technical sides to open source development.

Many of the underlying principles from this book are what form my grounding as an open-source maintainer for the last 15 years.

From Mike's list on becoming a great open source software engineer.