Read http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ This guy did it with fetchmail. Tells you the whole story. And you might gain valuable insight into how "I" isn't exactly as powerful as the Gillette razor commercials try to sell you into believing, isn't quite as powerful as a whole community, working, testing, using, posting issues, fixing issues, over the space of, say, a decade. "I" isn't exactly the "I" Sara Palin means when it's actually the "we" and the nature, the character of the exploitation of the labor force. <offtopic>Which doesn't mean of course that Open Source is not just another form of exploitation. It's just a "better" one in that it makes for a better product, etc., etc., etc. But of course you didn't ask about that.</offtopic> Microsoft found out with Vista that the "I" business model is inferior to the open source business model, which is why it may be looking into webroot for IE8. Ay, ay, ay... Victor Kane http://awebfactory.com.ar On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:20 PM, My Own Linux <myown.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
I want to write my own open source web application and make it as flexible and usable as drupal. I have no experience with a project this size. How do I go about it ? What do I need to do first and how do I plan the project ? I dont know where to start. I need to know the core technical side of project planning (not the hosting, cvs, etc..)
data structures file system layouts theme, modules support, etc..