On Wednesday 27 May 2009 11:59:10 jtd wrote: > > even now it is open software being developed in a closed manner. I see a > > lot of this going on - the idea of commit early commit often and of > > having the bleeding edge stuff in trunk (even if half of it is not > > working) is foreign to a lot of people. They want to release only when it > > is 'perfect' or 'complete'. Forgetting that no software is ever perfect > > or complete. > > > > The advantage of the open manner of development is that one gets feedback > > on every change made - rather than feedback when it is too late to make > > changes. -- > > +1 > > Hope the developers do seriously reconsider. > It just doesnt make sense to be gpld without the FLOSS dev process.
one problem is that the developers are probably all sitting in the same room. The have to get out of the habit of talking to each other and into the habit of communicating through the mailing list and sharing their code through the repository. It is very important to discuss *every* issue on the mailing list or on the wiki, otherwise it is not documented. A couple of us are developing an application under pressure, and we have made something like 30 commits in the last 2 days. I think this link should be compulsory reading for all would- be foss developers: http://producingoss.com/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
