Code is not a product to be bought and sold so much as a living form of knowledge. Software is knowledge of how to do something.
Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
from Nadia Eghbal đź“•
Filed under:
Same Source
- Bigger projects often use a formal “request for comments” (RFC) pro...
- At minimum, open source projects hosted on GitHub can be broken int...
- Developers don’t contribute to open source for lack of technical ab...
- MAINTAINERS are those who are responsible for the future of a proje...
- This innate duality—software visible as both a fixed point and a li...
- Paying a maintainer for their attention can also translate into ful...
- Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, most open so...
- View all
Related Notes
- Dependencies (coupling) is an important concern to address, but it&...from kbouck
- By replacing integration tests with unit tests, we're losing al...from Computer Things
- I propose that there is one problem chief among them, an impetus fo...from George Hosu
- When software -- or idea-ware for that matter -- fails to be access...from gist.github.com
- Any software is considered free software so long as it upholds the ...from writefreesoftware.org
- Nathan's four Laws of Software: 1. **Software is a gas** ...from Jeff Atwood
- > Any sufficiently complicated [C](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...from From Wikipedia, the free
- Ad-hoc validation leads to a phenomenon that the [language-theoreti...from Alexis King