Questions tagged [project-management]
For questions about the management of content or resources within a project.
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How do open-source projects prevent “design drift” when hundreds of contributors make small changes?
Over time, even well-managed projects risk losing design consistency as contributors add code in slightly different styles. Beyond code review, what strategies keep large open-source projects ...
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First release of OSS project
How do you decide the right time for the first-release of an OSS project ? Any insight on this would be very helpful.
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Why are open source projects so broken and apathetic if they are run by idealists? [closed]
I've just wasted countless hours over weeks just trying to get LibreOffice to use a dark theme. I've made numerous searches, looked through the entire UI, manually gone hunting for "the usual ...
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Is the entire beta/release candidate process of open source projects mostly just "for show"?
This risks offending some. I don't mean to. I'm seriously wondering about this. And it's not at all specifically about PHP; it's just that this is such a major, critical software project which is ...
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cooperative work between opensource project and commercial projects
We have a commercial product, and we want to provide an opensource project for community. But those two projects are different, one commercial, one community, like features. Then, we will have two ...
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5 answers
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How do I become a regular contributor to GitHub FOSS projects?
I've been foraging GitHub and making small one-off contributions to a variety of codebases that interest me. Typically, the projects that I want to contribute to are very large in nature and already ...
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Giving ownership of a particular area of the project?
(warning: not a license question) As a GSoC mentor, I just received an email from Google about how to retain volunteers, and here is their main tip: The orgs that have been most successful in ...
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Are there cases where not releasing code history led to failure?
One of the problems that comes up around releasing a piece of formerly proprietary software as open source is the necessity to "scrub the history" of potentially embarrassing or legally hazardous ...
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