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carnarvon Project

These are the fundamentals about how the carnarvon Project is run and also some fundamentals on Open Source. If you wonder how this could really work you should read some Open Source literature like "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" or some GNU or Linux statement.

Open Source

carnarvon is an Open Source project. This means several things:
  • Software is provided free of charge.
  • Source code is provided with the software.
  • Users are encouraged not only to report problems but also to contribute solutions, improvements and new features. They have the source code available to make this easier.

No funding

The carnarvon Project operates without funding. This means several things:
  • No salaries or rewards are paid.
  • Users are encouraged to collaborate with carnarvon.
  • Organizations like Tigris provide the central infrastructure needed without monetary compensation.
  • Other projects like CVS, Subversion, MySQL, Python, ... provide tools without monetary compensation.
  • Other projects like gnuplot, ... provide their libraries to be distributed by us without monetary compensation.
  • Support is not provided in a commercial basis but can be obtained from the knowledge exchange that tools like mailing lists and issue tracker.
  • Neither guarantee nor warranty is for the product. The product is provided as is, and this is stated clearly in the licensing.
  • Suggestions for new features are not only welcome but encouraged. On the other hand, to solve a certain problem or implement a specific feature to a specific date, cannot be undertaken.

Users and developers

As with most of the not funded Open Source projects the primary incentive for our developers is their own personal need. This means that a problem is solved and a feature is added when one of the developers of carnarvon finds it important enough to spend enough time on. In this there is no big difference between a Developer of carnarvon and a User of carnarvon. If a User finds a problem important enough to spend enough time on he can do so and send the solution to the project for inclusion into carnarvon.

The developers' mailing list is open to everyone to discuss what you want to do to improve carnarvon. For ideas you can also see the list of open issues in Issuezilla.

Other things about the project

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, join the developers' mailing list and start the discussion there.

If you are reporting a bug in carnarvon, please use Issuezilla. Please check if the same bug has been seen before and if so, just add your additional observations to it.

You don't need to be a Python expert to contribute. There are a lot of things to do for a wide range of skills.

Carlos Gonzalez borrowed the style and some paragraphs for this page from the ArgoUML Contribute page.