October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 14m
English
As you saw in the chart in the previous section, the world of free and open source software needs many different skill sets to create successful projects. It also needs people to take on several different roles. Often you’ll find a single person who has taken on a number of roles (especially in smaller projects); other times a project has multiple people taking on a single role to share the responsibility. However it ends up organized in the project, several roles are always at work at any one time.
What exactly are these roles? You’ve probably already guessed that they vary from project to project, but they typically fall into a few fairly standard categories. Academic authors Walt Scacchi [Sca07] and Y. ...
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