mulix
Sun, 05 Aug 2001 04:54:12 -0700
On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, mulix wrote: > > > i'd hesitate to take on a project whose time to completion cannot be > > estimated. i think that until we get some more developers (hint, hint, > > lin-club people) we should stick to small scale projects. > > Part of the reason I cannot estimate its time to completion is because I > don't know how many developers are going to work on it. However, I'm not > sure if more developers will make the situation better because the project > can be parallelized only to a certain extent. Some parts of the code needs > to be written by one group synchronously. actually, more developers can sometime hinder a project, as the prophet brooks reminds us. (not, not mel brooks, frederick p. brooks, jr, author of "the mythical man month") > But I can tell you in advance that the MAYBE simulator will not take too > much work. And I believe we can split it into several steps, that each one > would be a mini-project of its own. That way, we can take some time to > procastinate with different projects. > > Would you agree to delay the final verdict until I rent the book and write > a more detailed description of the MAYBE's internals, as well as a > specification of the simulator's code, as I can plan it in advance? we can always schedule it, if there's sufficient interest, after guy's attach and detach programs. personally, i'd like to hear this description anyway (i'd like to read the book too... if only there were 48 hours in a standard earth day). -- mulix http://www.advogato.com/person/mulix linux/reboot.h: #define LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1 0xfee1dead