On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Ray Hooker wrote:
> The point of this ranting is to suggest that for many systems the > co-evolution model or the Cathedral and Bazaar model is more appropriate. I > can't see how you can do this and send programming off-shore with the > distance and cultural barriers. The traditional Cathedral/Bazaar model is for open source projects, which I presume to be generally Internet driven and not single location driven. ie) I don't recall hearing that the Linux, *BSD, Apache or other projects are centered around a single location. Often they are centered around a single person, but not location. So I'd think it's pretty easy to argue that off-shore development would benefit from this model. Take a small number of local leaders, give them a pool of off-shore developers via the Internet and have them compete for interest from those developers who merely have to do work each day to earn their pay. Probably better than giving them a pool of local developers. However, I doubt that this is likely to happen in the typical example as the off-shore contracting companies are specialising in being old-style shops if what I read is correct. Hen _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
