surviving open source projects

someone should have had the author of this comment about open source project management to this article about open source project management on builder.com write the article instead of the actual author, since he clearly is endowed with more clues. detailed code deliverables? appoint volunteers? i'd say the only tip from the article that doesn't need to be buried in a pit of caveats is the third (revision control), and even that has been painted with a horrible policy sheen.