Managing a Free Software Project

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Overview

2. Starting a Free Software Project

3. Choosing the Right Project

4. Finding Similar Projects

5. Overlap with Other Projects

6. Naming Your Project

7. Choosing a License

8. The Mechanics of Licensing

9. Choose a Method of Version Numbering

10. Documentation

11. Other Documentation Hints

12. Presentation Issues

13. Maintaining a Project: Interacting with Developers

14. Delegating Work

15. Mechanics of Delegation

16. Evaluating Patches

17. Rejecting Patches

18. Stable and Development Branches

19. Other Development Issues

20. Maintaining a Project: Interacting with Users

21. Testing and Testers

22. Setting up Support Infrastructure

23. Other (more optional) support ideas

24. When to Release

25. Alpha and Beta Releases

26. Announcing Your Project

27. Where to Go From Here?

28. Resources