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authorGravatar Chris Xiong <chirs241097@gmail.com> 2024-06-22 19:59:16 -0400
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- <div id="datetags" class="TText" style="margin-bottom:1em;">2018-06-05<br>#sophistry</div>
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-This article is based on a presentation project I did for the software
-project management course. The original presentation can be found
-<a href="//filestorage.chrisoft.org/blog/data/ventriloquist.pdf">here</a><a id="n1" href="#note1" class="note">[1]</a>.
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-As mentioned in <a href="https://chrisoft.org/blog/post/2018-05-18.html#tocanch4">
-another article</a>, software engineering college
-in China (one of which I am currently studying in) mainly deals with
-the development cycle of proprietary programs with a very specific purpose
-(i.e. enterprise software), such as software system for a library or an
-electric grid. Unfortunately, there are very few instances of free
-enterprise software in the wild. Therefore it's safe to assume that I still
-know nothing about the life cycle of a free software project except my own
-experience.
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-<h2 id="tocanch0" class="tvis">Project charter. What?</h2>
-<p>
-Approximately 50% of the class is focused on the project charter. How the
-charter is issued. Why modifying the charter is vital when the client requests
-to make a change in the requirements. This list can go a lot longer.
-</p>
-<p>
-However, project charter doesn't seem to play an important role in free software
-projects, at least compared to what I have learned. Even some <i>huge</i> free
-software projects such as KDE omits the project charter. Instead they have brief
-description of every sub-projects and use their 'philosophy' to govern the whole
-project.
-</p>
-<p>
-This can lead to problems though. When decisions need to be made, the only ones
-involved are the current maintainers. Free software projects fall into roughly
-four categories according to the way new features are introduced:
-</p>
-<ul>
-<li>Linux kernel/LineageOS: developers submits changes, got reviewed, and
-possibly merged.
-<p>Linux kernel is such a huge and complex project that probably only users
-extremely familiar with it know what new functionality they need. Also
-the code needs to have a reasonable wide range of use cases to be merged.
-This sets a pretty high standard for the contributors. LineageOS, on the
-other hand, is a lot easier to get started. However being mostly a community
-project, they cannot simply get every requested features implemented without
-help.</p>
-</li>
-<li>i3wm: this will never turn into compiz.
-<p>It is important for i3wm not to turn into compiz. However sometimes this
-can be abused for dictatorship over the project (e.g. gogs, which resulted
-in a fork into gitea.<a id="n2" href="#note2" class="note">[2]</a>)</p>
-</li>
-<li>systemd: let's add a email client to this.
-<p><s>j/k.</s></p>
-</li>
-<li><a href="#tocanch2">...</a></li>
-</ul>
-<h2 id="tocanch1" class="tvis">Tools and outdated approaches</h2>
-<p>
-Over the years, the process of building a commercial software has evolved a
-lot. However, the process of building free software seem to be stuck at what
-it was like in the 70s forever: (nearly) everything is still on mailing lists.
-Indeed, VCS, issue tracker and CI simplified a lot of stuff. And the
-infrastructure has also improved a lot from that of the 70s. But we are still
-no where close to a well-organized process. Personnel management is almost
-completely relying on faith. Deadlines can be pushed back again and again.
-That's it.
-</p>
-<h2 id="tocanch2" class="tvis">Free software that is...</h2>
-<p>... developed as if it was proprietary software.</p>
-<p>
-A very typical instance: Android. Repositories are not updated until new
-release comes out. Many related patents are held by Google. Even codename
-needs revealing.
-</p>
-<p>
-Another (less-known) example is Deepin, which one of my friends works for.
-It's infra is far less open to public than that of Debian or even Ubuntu.
-Public opinions are ignored from time to time.
-</p>
-<p>
-While making the project much more better-organized, this approach
-automatically makes the project dictated by the project management team.
-Many benefits of free software doesn't apply to such projects, which
-makes them closer to those 'shared source' software. Although still can be
-forked freely, most forks die out pretty quickly, as these projects tend
-to be pretty large in scale, maintenance of such a project is no trivial task.
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