Hi Ales,
Interesting topic. IMHO, I won't worry much about it. The same
situation happens to most projects, even in large corporations.
If a visionary architect leaves the project, the project will suffer
or die. It is not the technical expertise, e.g., in programming,
it is the architectural vision, and management skills that makes
a project successful.
gEDA/gaf codes are well organized, and currently stable and
generic enough to allow all sorts of new developments.
Most programmers well versed in C and Scheme would be
able to contine development for it. But without the right
vision and management, the project could eventually die
because of lack of acceptance by the public, though might
be a slow one.
Well, unless you can find some more Ales with similar visionary
and management skills, on top of the programming skill. Having
the wrong kind of persons to manage a project would lead to
disaster, and I have seen quite a few.
Best Regards,
Paul Tan
-----Original Message-----
From: Ales Hvezda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 8:15 pm
Subject: gEDA-dev: gEDA Project's Bus Number
Hi,
As Peter Brett rightfully pointed out in IRC late last year, the gEDA's
Project's "Bus Number" is quite low. What is a "Bus Number", well as
PeterB defined it:
Number of people who need to be hit by a bus before the project
has major difficulties
Here are some interesting pages on this topic:
http://blog.visionpace.com/2006/05/whats_your_bus_.html
http://www.jaredrichardson.net/blog/2005/08/02/
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BusNumber (btw, the c2 wiki is fun to read
sometimes)
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TruckNumber
Anyways, I'm open to suggestions on how to increase the "Bus Number" or
at least reduce the risk of having such a low number. Ideas?
Thanks,
-Ales
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