17 Dec
2005
17 Dec
'05
3:39 p.m.
I'm a user of Dovecot and I really do like the product.
I view Dovecot as a successfull Opensource application/project.
I am curious about what makes an Opensource project successfull and why others fail.
Just a couple of questions, and perhaps since this is a little off topic, perhaps you can e-mail me your replies directly as to keep the noise to signal relationship low?
- How many people are involved in making architecture/design decisions?
- How many people are responsible for approving any code changes
- How many people actually contribute at the code level? 3b) At the design level?
- Which "open source" licensing strategies did you review and what were the deciding factors?
I realize that these are pretty generic questions.
I'm thinking of adding to them and then polling a larger group of projects to see what results are returned.
TIA!
-Mike
PS. Hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season and Happy New Year!