OpenMRS: Record Linkage Project

Google was cool enough to send out Karl Fogel’s Producing Open Source Software book as a suprise gift to all Summer of Code ‘07 participants. I have already read that book at our local library after getting accepted, therefore I was hoping to receive another book, Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution Nevertheless, the book we received is more suitable in terms of the goals of this program, so there is nothing to complain :)Karl Fogel was one of the developers of Subversion, and a past Google employee. In his book, he shares his experience about different aspects of open-source software development, from setting up the technical infrastucture to licensing and copyright issues. This book is worth reading because it contains specific examples and good advice.Fogel mentions a developer named Greg Stein, who decided to set an example by reviewing every line of every single commit that went into the code repository and eventually started a tradition of code reviews among developers of Subversion project.As a young developer, code reviews would be a great way to get useful feedback and improve my coding abilities. Fogel argues that one could contribute as much to the project by reviewing others’ changes as by writing new code because bugs and non-optimal coding practices that would go unnoticed would be caught on the fly.I agree with him, and would love to receive some reviews after my first few commits