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Re: [Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s?
From: |
William Sit |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s? |
Date: |
Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:29:13 -0400 |
address@hidden 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.
>
Brooks' law may limit the number of developers, but it did
not say what constitutes a project. For a large project with
many (say 10) subprojects, Brooks' law may apply to
subprojects. Are you advocating one developer per subproject
is sufficient?
William
- [Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s?, daly, 2007/07/01
- [Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s?, daly, 2007/07/01
- [Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s?, daly, 2007/07/01
- [Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s?, daly, 2007/07/01
- [Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s?, daly, 2007/07/01
- [Axiom-developer] Why did Axiom fail in the 1990s?, daly, 2007/07/01