Glossary
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This is a glossary of some of the terms participants used in the survey.
I do not claim is be an expert in any of the terms listed.
I just did some web searching and I hope that this glossary helps.
Branching
Branching is to take a piece of code into a different line of development.
Unlike forking, branching usually ends up merging with the original code
base.
More information can be found in:
Compare with forking
Branching from
http://www.cvshome.org/
Branching from
"A Free CVS Book"
Concurrent Versions System
CVS is the Concurrent Versions System, the dominant open-source
network-transparent version control system. (Taken from
http://www.cvshome.org/)
More information can be found in:
Homepage of Concurrent Versions
System
A Free CVS Book
Extreme Programming
Extreme Programming (XP) is a deliberate and disciplined approach to software development.
(Taken from http://www.extremeprogramming.org/)
More information can be found in:
Extreme Programming: A Gentle Introduction
XProgramming.com - An Extreme Programming Resource
Extreme Programming FAQ
fork, or forking of a project
A fork is what occurs when two (or more) versions of a software package's
source code are being developed in parallel which once shared a common
code base, and these multiple versions of the source code have
irreconcilable differences between them. This should not be confused with
a development branch, which may later be folded back into the original
source code base. (Taken from the New Hacker's Dictionary)
More information can be found in:
Compare with branching
The fork entity in the New Hacker's Dictionary
Freshmeat
Freshmeat maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform
open source software.
More information can be found in:
Freshmeat
Jane Jacobs' Systems of Survival - Commercial Moral Syndrome
Commercial Moral Syndrome
- Shun force
- Come to voluntary
agreements
- Be honest
- Collaborate easily with
strangers and aliens
- Compete
- Respect contracts
- Use initiative and
enterprise
- Be open to inventiveness
and novelty
- Be efficient
- Promote comfort and
convenience
- Dissent for the sake of the
task
- Invest for productive
purposes
- Be industrious
- Be thrifty
- Be optimistic
This concept is taken from Jane Jacob's book:
Jacobs, J. 1992, Systems of Survival. A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics, Vintage Books/Random House, New York.
More information can be found in:
Review on Systems of Survival by Jane Jacobs#1
Review on Systems of Survival by Jane Jacobs#2
qmail and ezmlm
qmail is a SMTP server and ezmlm is a mailing list manager
More information can be found in:
qmail homepage
rsync
rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.
More information can be found in:
rsync web page
Self-Reliance and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the greatest American philosophers. One of his most influential ideas was self-reliance.
More information can be found in:
The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
A sample of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Self-Reliance essay
SourceForge
SourceForge provides a centralized place for Open Source Developers to
control and manage Open Source Software Development.
More information can be found in:
SourceForge
Wiki Wiki Web
A set of pages of information that are open and free for anyone to edit as they wish.
More information can be found in:
Wiki Wiki Web
Other References
The New Hacker's
Dictionary
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