Re: [evince] University of bolton Undergraduate research

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2013-10-14 at 13:20 +0100, alex bennett wrote:
> Dear developer of Evince
> For an assignment for my computing course to research on an open
> source project, and communicate with a developer who currently
> maintains the project and to research the software and its development
> as open source software.
> How did you become involved in the development of Evince?

There is no process AFAIK;  very few Open Source projects have a
'process'.  He [or she] who submits code is then a member.

> Why was evince developed as an open source project?

It is a GNOME application, and GNOME is Open Source.  Really, why would
someone develop as closed-source is a much better question.

The best way to contact active developers is probably via the IRC
channel listed on the project's home page.

Or contact a team member directly - https://projects.gnome.org/evince/

> How has open source benefited the development of Evince?

People can contribute.  They cannot contribute to a closed source
project.  It also could not be part of the much larger GNOME community.
And possibly it uses GPL dependencies [??? I don't know], in which case
it legally must be Open Source [it is important to distinguish between
GPL, LGPL, and non-GPL such as BSD and MIT/X11].