October 2005
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
10h 1m
English
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Index
A note on the digital index
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A
- Aegis, Aegis
- Alpha qualifier, Release Number Components
- alpha release, Development Status
- Ant build system, Compilation and Installation
- Apache Software Foundation, Prevent Territoriality
- governance documents, Writing It All Down
- licensing and patents, Patents
- approval voting, When Consensus Cannot Be Reached, Vote
- APR project, numbering, The Simple Strategy
- Arch, Arch
- Artificial Intelligence Lab, Conscious resistance
- ArX, ArX
- author tags in source code, Prevent Territoriality
- automated testing, Automated testing
B
- backward-compatible releases, The Simple Strategy
- Bazaar and Bazaar-NG, Bazaar
- benevolent dictators, Benevolent Dictators
- Berkeley Software Distribution (see BSD)
- Beta qualifier, Release Number Components
- beta release, Development Status
- Bikeshed Effect, The Softer the Topic, the Longer the Debate, Why Should I Care What Color the Bikeshed Is?
- binary packages, Binary Packages
- Blandy, Jim, You Are What You Write
- branches, Version Control Vocabulary
- release branches, Release Branches–Mechanics of Release Branches
- using to avoid bottlenecks, Use branches to avoid bottlenecks
- Brooks, Fred, Technical Infrastructure
- Brooks’ Law, Technical Infrastructure
- BSD (Berkeley ...
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