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     3 * Ideal software development model.

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     5 This file mainly discuss about open source software project.

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     7 * Open source.

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     9 Open source software project have freedom how develop project and which

    10 development toolchains use.

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    12 * Close source.

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    14 Close source projects have proprietary nature because of:

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    16  * interest to make money (another parties can not easily reproduce project or

    17    steal realisation ideas/code, allowing another party get same product and get

    18    company money)

    19  * low code quality (to stop stain company good name or to stop malicious

    20    attacks based on code analysis)

    21  * security consideration (to hide protocols and data format to make harder

    22    malicious attack)

    23  * business model (closed data formats allow vendor lock)

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    25 Disadvantage of closed source project (in many case):

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    27  * you can not directly contact with developers (only through support)

    28  * low support quality

    29  * paid support (and you have no enough money)

    30  * can not access to product bug tracing system (you only can submit bug via

    31    crash report application or technical support, publicly appear internal bug

    32    tracing can damage product reputation

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    34 * Component of software project.

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    36  * Src (sources).

    37  * Doc (documentation).

    38  * VCS (version control system).

    39  * BTS (bug tracking).

    40  * News (project news/history/changelog).

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    42 * Docs.

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    44 TODO

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    46 * Project home page.

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    48 Project home page must provide:

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    50  * project name

    51  * short info about project goal

    52  * project license

    53  * current project status

    54  * links to binary release

    55  * links to source release, how to get latest source from VCS

    56  * links to online/printed docs

    57  * how report bug (BUGS)

    58  * where send patch

    59  * contact info

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    61 Additionally:

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    63  * help welcome, requirement to join to project

    64  * mail/news list for users/developers, how to subscribe/unsubscribe, where

    65    find archive, how search for keyword in archive

    66  * project history (NEWS, ChangeLog)

    67  * project policy (HACKING)

    68  * how build project (README, INSTALL)

    69  * list of contributor with contact info (MAINTAINERS, AUTHORS)

    70  * who use project

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    72 * VCS.

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    74 TAGS: VCS, version control system, SCM, source code management, DVCS,

    75       distributed version control system.

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    77  * CVS

    78  * SVN

    79  * Mercurial (hg)

    80  * git

    81  * bazaar

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