On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 09:22 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > even now it is open software being developed in a closed manner. I see a lot > of this going on - the idea of commit early commit often and of having the > bleeding edge stuff in trunk (even if half of it is not working) is foreign > to > a lot of people. They want to release only when it is 'perfect' or > 'complete'. > Forgetting that no software is ever perfect or complete. > I think judgements of these types can be only made after realling testing the source code as per the directions given by the developres for downloading and installation. if the above asumtion was right, then one would not see more than a couple of commits (that too small ones ) every few hours on the svn repo.
Also if the source code was supposed to be close, we would never let people test the code. And not to forget that the code commits are followed up with posting on the mailing list and many-a-times followed with a list of errors. It is just the matter of really following the mailing list which is one important part of "foss " development. > The advantage of the open manner of development is that one gets feedback on > every change made - rather than feedback when it is too late to make changes. WE do get feedback and I would like to again remind "follow the mailing list". happy hacking. Krishnakant. > -- > regards > Kenneth Gonsalves > Associate > NRC-FOSS > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
