I was ego-surfing Google Print and found that a question I asked the FoRK mailing list back in 1999 had been quoted in a book.
The email read:
My XSL formatter/renderer, FOP, is soon to have more than just myself as the developer and as I communicate with would-be co-developers, I've started wondering about software engineering in open source projects.There have been numerous musings on the business and anthropology of open source. Is anyone aware of readings that address the actual software engineering issues?
James
The book is Understanding Open Source Software Development by Joseph Feller and Brian Fitzgerald and my second paragraph is quoted on page 6.
I don't mind they quoted me—it's just funny that it was just a simple query to a mailing list that they quoted.
Incidently, I've done a lot of collaborative open source and distributed development since I asked that question. I should probably blog what I've learnt as a way of answering my own question, six years on.