Pat Farrell;181799 Wrote: > \ > Open or closed has nothing to do with speed of development. And adding > > more developers usually slows development efforts.
On point one: well, sort of. I guess the issue here might not be open-source, so much as the leaders of the project being able to force/entice/whatever other contributors to do things they don't feel like doing. This is a classic problem in all-volunteer open source projects. Of course, you can have a way around this by simply having more employees of SD working on the code, so that the unglamorous/unpleasant/boring/miserable stuff is more likely to get done. On point two, again, sort of, really depends. Sure it's the case that in a project that's going along with a dozen programmers, suddenly upping the number to a hundred probably won't help much. But if you have a company sponsored open source project with a couple of employees and some volunteers, adding new employees to the mix could help in numerous ways. One is addressed above. Regardless of what the mythical man month claims, you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater if you try to claim that it never or almost never helps to add developers. I've certainly been in situations in my career when getting a couple bodies onto my projects when I was completely swamped was crucial, and the only thing that enabled the projects to succeed. I'd guess that many other people have, as well. -- totoro squeezebox 3 -> mccormack dna .5 -> audio physic tempo 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ totoro's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5935 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=32904 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
