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Most succesful , and large open source projects seem to follow the Benevolent Dictator style organization. But I was wondering if there are any success stories with agile development in Open source. When refering to Open source I mean large net-community driven development, not established teams doing Open source under the same roof.
I think this is based on a misunderstanding. If you have a look at the Agile Manifesto, most open-source projects are "agile".
Few if any open source projects follow the exact practices of XP or SCRUM (etc), but then the environment is different.
I haven't really looked at the code, but I know the "Fitnesse" project uses pretty strict Agile development practices. In this case Bob Martin might be sort of a benevolent dictator who oversees the code, but they're using a lot of Agile practices like TDD, etc.
I'm not sure if they're using SCRUM specifically though.
http://fitnesse.org/
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People say practicing and keeping up to date with the latest technologies makes you a good developer, but what are some lesser known practices you all can suggest for someone currently doing a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering and wants to stand out in their Master's application abroad?
I've started writing technical articles on Medium, finding open source contributions (which I rarely find for beginner level and any suggestions would be appreciated) and doing coding challenges online. Is there anything else I should be focusing on?
you've got plenty of time. keep learning technologies you're interested in, do projects and develop your skills along the way I'd say. Participate in competitions if you can. Open source contribution is a pretty good step
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I am involved in a project which is meant to eventually become open-source and have a code contributor community. Is there any "right" way of doing this and what should/can I expect?
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There's a pretty good book on this topic, Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel, which is available for free online or in dead tree form if you prefer to read it that way. It would be hard to expand much on it in a single answer. Every project will, of course, be different, so I'd recommend reading that book, and then asking more specific questions about your particular project; answers will depend on the language and platform you use, how active an open source community there already is in your area, what your business model is, and many other factors.
I would recommand using Github or Google Project Hosting (subversion/mercurial), and of course use social media network to promote the project helps too.
You can start something like this - http://wxwidgets.org/develop/
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I run a small startup and have developed some web applications. We use open source technologies heavily and I want to give proper attribution to everything that we use.
The only thing I am concern about is it safe to expose everything? Such as webserver, development language and framework etc. Are there any pitfalls of doing so?
e.g. One particular concern is if some vulnerability be discovered in framework, application can be easy target until gets a patch.
The more one knows the more one can leverage. Said that, it shouldn't be to much of a problem if you build your web application with security in mind.
Shouldn't be an issue - many companies make public the fact that they use particular open source solutions.
The main pitfalls are the obvious security related ones: have you changed all the default admin passwords etc.?
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my company is very LAMP based as of now, and my management had decided to send a hardware guy and a developer to this MLG workshop. From what I check online it's mostly MS trying to bundle up a whole lot of their stuff and try to sell it to us to solve our problems.
Plus the fact that most of what we use now are pretty much open source tech, LAMP, purchased 3rd party libraries.
So I feel this is more of a management thingy rather that what a developer should attend. Have any you guys attended this? Or is this is waste of time as far as a developer need is. If it's not then I would probably talk to my team lead who's more managerial like than me to attend :P
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Go there yourself. If you send managers there, MS could succeed in selling them stuff, and then you would be forced to use it.
... I'm confused why any of you would bother attending this when you're an Open Source LAMP shop. Is a switch being considered??
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What open source projects would you recommend as a good place for a starting open source developer? Factors that I think would be important are some obvious ones like well written code and a community that is helpful to newbies. But it might be nice if the code base is such that I can start hacking some small problems without really understanding the details of how everything works.
I'd prefer something that can be developed on Linux using C/C++/Java/Python/Scala.
Trying to pick a project like that will never work because it's not something you're passionate about. What's an open source project that you use daily or enjoy using? Go work with that one.
It really depends on what your interests are as to what project to dive into.
Rationale for a larger project (e.g. Firefox, OpenOffice, etc) is that it has many developers, a well established code base, and many small tasks/bugs to be worked out.
Rationale for a smaller project is that you will become more intimate with the code and application. You will likely get to know other developers on the team and understand the overall concept better. Additionally, your additions to the project may be more noticeable.
sourceforge has a list of projects seeking a new developer. Therer are several for your requested programming languages:
http://sourceforge.net/people/?category_id=1
Apart from developers they have more help requests:
http://sourceforge.net/people/
Pick one you use and like already.