I finally had a chance to get back to wograld development. I was actually ready a couple months agotoget back to work on the project a couple months ago, but I wanted to redo my computer with a new set of distributions on it, so I did that in April. I got that done, and then I had an awful month in May. My cat got very sick and died, and I also had my car totaled.
June is started out well, I got a chance to test some code, add and remove things from the bug tracker, and commit more artwork. I can't believe I forgot about the bug tracker for years. I think if I had used it more from the beginning, I would not have to keep track of so many things in the development, particularly in cases where I put the project down for a bit and picked it back up again.
I've been daydreaming about writing a book on free software project development, but then I realize half the information I think should be included in the book, I don't actually know, I could ask someone else, but I'm not sure they would know the answer either. Also I don't want it to get into too much of an argument, such as what distro is better, what desktop GUI is better or what programming language is better etc. I know people get very opinionated on these things, I know I do. I don't want the book to be come across as too biased even though I have strong opinions on those topics too, I know not everyone shares my opinions.
I guess you could ask questions like Should your project use a bug tracker? Should your project use version control? I guess you can get away with not using them if its a very small project, but I've found anything more than 4-5 files it would probably be better to use version control anyway. With the bug tracker its nice to keep track of things even if no one else ever reads it, because then you know what you fixed and what you did not fix yet.
