Although I have studied the Cathedral/ Bazaar model in detail, I don't know that it would apply since the free market system of trying to solve a problem would not fit into the contractual and project management constraints of off-shore development.
I think your point, that Henri Yadell also expanded on is that most of the development sent overseas is old style, traditional development. That may not be a great comfort since it reduces the overall demand for domestically delivered programming services, perhaps it helps to better explain the dynamics. Ray -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henri Yandell Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 11:30 PM To: Research Triangle Java User's Group mailing list. Subject: RE: [Juglist] Article: The Changing Face of Offshore Programming 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 _______________________________________________ Juglist mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://trijug.org/mailman/listinfo/juglist_trijug.org
