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    Chet Ramey is a developer of GNU Bash, a command line shell used widely in Linux, Unix, and macOS. In this document, Ramey outlines his 20 years of experience managing the large free software project of GNU Bash. He discusses the current state and influences on Bash, his development and release processes, issues around backwards compatibility and compliance, and lessons he has learned from two decades of managing this open source project.

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    Twenty Years with a Free Software Project

    Chet Ramey GNU Bash developer October 27, 2012

    Introduction
    Who is this guy, and why is he up there? Whats Bash, anyway? What does he have to do with it? And why does it matter to me?

    Bash History How I got involved

    Introduction to Bash
    Current state Influences Posix Free Software vs. Open Source

    What I do
    How I manage a large software project What have I learned? What I do and what Ive found important

    Bash Development Process


    How I do development
    Fairly conventional Development environment Coding Standards Documentation

    Release Engineering
    Release cycles Features vs. bug fixes

    Supporting pieces
    Release process Testing

    Other Issues
    Backwards Compatibility Compliance The Free Software attitude

    Conclusions

    Questions?

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