Open Source Development References

Open Development

There are many successful strategies for developing software; our intent is not to rank them, but to nurture a collaborative environment for building ElectOS software. Establishing such an environment means establishing a collection of common practices that are straightforward, generally familiar, and easy to adopt.

Here are some resources for managing large open source projects that play in similarly complex spaces as ElectOS. There are useful lessons here both for what to do and not to do.

Guides & Standards

• 18F's technical guides and standards 18F is a technology and design consultancy within the US government. Their Guides include numerous methods and best practices.

• OpenStack is infrastructure with serious design and deployment constraints, which is, in its own words:

  open source, openly designed, openly developed by an open community

  • Wiki
  • Docs. In particular take a look at Software and Community

Books

• Program Management for Open Source Projects, (Ben Cotton, July 2022)

Proposal Process

Original RFCs:

• IETF Standards Process

From programming languages:

• Python PEPs. See PEP 1 - Purpose and Guidelines and the list of meta-PEPs
• Rust RFCs. See Rust RFCs in the Rust Book
• Go enhancement proposals. See Proposing Changes to Go