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authorGravatar Chris Xiong <chirs241097@gmail.com> 2019-02-10 11:16:07 +0800
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+ <li><a class="toctarg" href="#tocanch0">Project charter. What?</a></li><li><a class="toctarg" href="#tocanch1">Tools and outdated approaches</a></li><li><a class="toctarg" href="#tocanch2">Free software that is...</a></li></ul>
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+ <h2 id="titleh" class="TText" style="font-wight:normal;">Software Project Management in the Free Software World</h2>
+ <div id="datetags" class="TText" style="margin-bottom:1em;">2018-06-05<br>#sophistry</div>
+ <hr><div id="article" class="TText"><article>
+<p>
+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>.
+</p>
+<p>
+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.
+</p>
+<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.
+</p>
+<p>
+This is certainly not the best way to do it.
+</p>
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+ <div class="TText" id="notediv" style="font-size:80%;"><span class="TText"><a id="note1" href="#n1">[1]</a>: I used the term
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+presentation, which is more familiar to the audience. But the actual focus
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