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NAME="AEN2">Free Software Project Management HOWTO</H1
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CLASS="AUTHOR"
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NAME="AEN4"
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>Benjamin "Mako" Hill</A
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> mako@debian.org<br>
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>Revision History</B
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>Revision v0.3.2</TD
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>15 April 2002</TD
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>Revised by: bch</TD
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>Revision v0.3.1</TD
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>18 June 2001</TD
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>5 May 2001</TD
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>10 April 2001</TD
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>8 April 2001</TD
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>27 March 2001</TD
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>Initial Release</TD
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> This HOWTO is designed for people with experience in programming
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and some skills in managing a software project but who are new to
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the world of free software. This document is meant to act as a
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guide to the non-technical aspects of free software project
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management and was written to be a crash course in the people
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skills that aren't taught to commercial coders but that can make
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or break a free software project.
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>Table of Contents</B
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>1. <A
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HREF="intro.html"
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>Introduction</A
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>1.1. <A
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HREF="intro.html#COPYRIGHT"
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>Copyright Information</A
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>1.2. <A
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HREF="intro.html#DISCLAIMER"
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>Disclaimer</A
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>1.3. <A
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HREF="intro.html#NEWVERSIONS"
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>New Versions</A
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>1.4. <A
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HREF="intro.html#CREDITS"
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>Credits</A
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>1.5. <A
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HREF="intro.html#FEEDBACK"
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>Feedback</A
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>1.6. <A
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HREF="intro.html#TRANSLATIONS"
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>Translations</A
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>2. <A
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HREF="starting.html"
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>Starting a Project</A
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>2.1. <A
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HREF="starting.html#CHOOSEPROJECT"
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>Choosing a Project</A
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>2.2. <A
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HREF="starting.html#NAMING"
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>Naming your project</A
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>2.3. <A
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HREF="starting.html#LICENSING"
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>Licensing your Software</A
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>Choosing a Method of Version Numbering</A
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HREF="starting.html#DOCUMENTATION"
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>Documentation</A
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>2.6. <A
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HREF="starting.html#PRESENTATION"
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>Other Presentation Issues</A
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>3. <A
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>Maintaining a Project: Interacting with Developers</A
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>Delegating Work</A
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>Accepting and Rejecting Patches</A
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>3.3. <A
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>Stable and Development Branches</A
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HREF="developers.html#OTHERDEV"
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>Other Project Management issues</A
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>3.5. <A
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HREF="developers.html#AEN613"
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>Forks</A
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>4. <A
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>Maintaining a Project: Interacting with Users</A
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>Testing and Testers</A
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>Setting up Support Infrastructure</A
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HREF="users.html#RELEASING"
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>Releasing Your Program</A
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>Announcing Your Project</A
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>Bibliography</A
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>A. <A
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>GNU Free Documentation License</A
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>A.1. <A
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>0. PREAMBLE</A
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HREF="fdl.html#FDL-SIMPLESECT1"
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>1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS</A
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>A.3. <A
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HREF="fdl.html#FDL-SECTION2"
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>2. VERBATIM COPYING</A
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>3. COPYING IN QUANTITY</A
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>4. MODIFICATIONS</A
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HREF="fdl.html#FDL-SECTION6"
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>6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS</A
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>7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS</A
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>8. TRANSLATION</A
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>9. TERMINATION</A
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>10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE</A
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