July 2002
Beginner to intermediate
504 pages
12h 56m
English
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Chapter 12. Cocoon: Weaving the Future
When we conceived this book on Cocoon, we decided that we would write this chapter last. This might seem obvious, because it is the last chapter in the book, but chapters are not necessarily written in the order they appear. This chapter would give us a chance to fold all the developments that happened while we were writing the book into a chapter that would also focus on what Cocoon’s future might look like.
As is the case with writing a book, software development does not happen in a void. It is a very dynamic process. This is especially true of open-source projects that are developed under widespread ...