On 22/10/10 22:17, Ian Clarke wrote: > Nice quote, but you obviously haven't read the book it is taken from or > you'd know that this adage is only true in some situations, none of which > apply here.
No, I haven't. Clearly though, the secondary accounts of it I've been given, are all wrong! Please elaborate on these "some situations". I should think the principle of "growth without structure results in unworkable complexity" is quite universal. > Further, who is to say that Freenet is "late"? We haven't even agreed on > our next release date yet. The lateness isn't relevant, the principle of the quote is. Projects become late due to overhead. Even if we're not working to a schedule, overhead will slow things down. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks's_law#Exceptions_and_possible_solutions You can't complain that I haven't read the book, then give me a link to a wikipedia article. Did you just google that up? Also, half of that section talks about having good management/development practises which is what I suggested, and quite counter to (22:50:28) toad_: infinity0: why? code quality is not what gets us new users (although that was possibly said tongue-in-cheek, I hope so) >> over-prioritising one area necessarily results in the neglect of another. > > Not if the area we are prioritizing will increase the project's capacity to > make progress in *all* areas, as is the case with our efforts to attract > more developers. How does coding new features, plugins, and a UI, make progress in the areas of documentation and infrastructure? Also, *what* "efforts to attract more developers"? Seriously? > I recognize that our development process is far from perfect, but I do not > agree that we should reduce our efforts to attract new users or developers. We don't have infinite resources - improving some areas necessarily means cutting back on others. However, diverting some resources away from "attracting users" to "building infrastructure" will help the former, in the long run. > No, its the logical implication of your own argument. Then argue that instead of throwing out crap like "so you think we should avoid users" because I obviously don't. X -- GPG: 4096R/5FBBDBCE _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] http://freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
