Lessons learned developing scholarly open source software | PLOS Tech

"Earlier this week we released version 3.8 of the Lagotto open source software (migrating the software to version 4 of the Rails framework). Lagotto is software that tracks events (views, saves, discussions and citations) around scholarly articles and provides these Article-Level Metrics to all journal articles published by PLOS. The project was started in 2008, and I am the technical lead since May 2012. This is the 24th release since I am involved with the software, and I want to take the opportunity to go into more detail about some of the lessons learned along the way ..."