> 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?
I wasn't advocating anything. I was commenting on the myth that sourceforge projects have hundreds of developers. However, to further quote the same source: What are we to make, then, of the thousands of Firefox contributors? The key is to recognize that they are not a homogeneous mass of contributors, and Firefox is not a monolithic piece of software. In fact, the design is highly modular, enabling small teams to work on separate components of the code without interfering with each other. We could easily have developers working on algebra (e.g. Martin) who do not interfere with developers working on LP (e.g. Cliff). Tim _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
