[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. >
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 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
