My emphasis was to have more *USERS* and the question is
why many former users abandoned Axiom and did not return.
To clarify, "users" includes people who use Axiom to
compute and/or contribute new algebra code with
documentation (who may also be, but not exclusively,
build-developers or system-developers: people who
contribute to make, lisp, boot, user-interface, compilers,
interpreters, packaging, etc.).
William
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 15:43:53 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is a constant drumbeat to expand the number of
developers.
To quote Chris DiDona, Danese Cooper, and Mark Stone
(Open Sources 2.0
ISBN 0-596-00802-3, pXXVIII):
Brooks' Law appears to set a fundamental limit on the
optimal
size of programming teams -- and a rather small limit
at that.
Empirical evidence supports Brooks's Law. For example,
since
its inception SourceForge.net has maintained very
close to a
10:1 ratio of registered users to registered projects,
suggesting
that open source development projects seldom have more
than
10 active developers.
Tim
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