[OSGeo-Discuss] scale of FOSS projects

[Mateusz Loskot]

Schuyler Erle wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 12:03 +0200, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> 
>> Yes it does. Karl Fogel describes it very well in his book
>> (http://producingoss.com). I strongly recommend it to project leaders
>> and developers who maintain just-opened and want to get dirty with
>> principles of the FOSS world.
> 
> One important point that Fogel makes that I think is worth noting here
> is that the number-one sine-qua-non of *any* potentially successful
> software project is *shipping working code*.

It's also a good idea to release early and often.
There is a temptation to bring a code with all possible issues smoothed 
away, but it defers release what might be bad if counted in months.

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Mateusz Loskot
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