Julien Danjou 6/9/2016

The bad practice in FOSS projects management

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The article discusses detrimental social practices in managing Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects, based on the author's experience at events like the OpenStack summit. It highlights mistakes like viewing contributors as an annoyance and only assigning them low-impact 'grunt work,' explaining how these practices can drive away potential long-term maintainers and harm project health.

The bad practice in FOSS projects management

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