srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) (06/24/91)
I am emailing to anyone interested a paper I have written that lists
about 120 questions one might ask oneself before starting a software reuse
effort anywhere. Most of the questions deal with economic, social, legal
and management aspects of software reuse and repositories, especially for
repositories with many thousands of entries. The paper is an ongoing effort,
and I am always interested in adding more questions that deal with nontechnical
aspects of reuse and repositories.
To obtain a copy of the paper, send me your email or snail mail address.
The paper came out of observations while maintaining a database of information
on over 15000 programs available in source code form from governments and
universities. In spite of such a wealth of software, little is reused in any
language, for what I perceive to be the mostly nontechnical issues addressed
in my paper.
Gregory Aharonian
Source Translation & Optimization
srctran@world.std.com