A Methodology for Developing Open Source Software

• integration tests

• configuration

• completeness / bundling of tools

The CVS manual has the following to say: A true "configuration management system" would contain elements of the following:

• Source control.

• Dependency tracking.

• Build systems (i.e. What to build and how to find things during a build. What is shared? What is local?)

• Bug tracking.

• Automated Testing procedures.

• Release Engineering documentation and procedures.

• Tape Construction.

• Customer Installation.

• A way for users to run different versions of the same software on the same host at the same time.

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