Open source projects that use agile methods or have tried them

Question

I am preparing a short conversation for a conference in August, and I am looking for open source projects that use built-in methods internally or have tried to use them in the past.

My goal is to talk about what works well and what won’t work and advance flexible methods a bit, because I think that some flexible methods are suitable, but do not seem so common in real development.

And does anyone know projects that previously tried to use flexible methods and techniques? I would like to contact them for a few questions.

Update: Thanks for the answers, I will contact the teams in the following weeks. :-) (First I have to prepare questions and an introduction ...)

I am still in control of this question, so feel free to add more answers / projects / ...

Answer 1

Of course, Agile supports face-to-face communication, and most open source projects have distributed members, and distance does not make communication easier. Does this mean that you cannot be Agile in an OSS project? I do not think so.

First of all, I need to say that modern tools can help reduce the communication costs associated with distance: skype, phone, conference calling, video conferencing, shared editors and viewing tools, mail, a written document (even a trip), etc. If you can avoid the distance, do it. But this is not a blocker problem.

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Answer 4

XWiki.

http://www.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/About/Team

They have a great product, this is Open Source, Vincent Massol knows very good flexible practices (tests with special care), and the team is distributed. You can try asking for some of your "secret recipes" ,-)