On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Travis Vaught <tra...@vaught.net> wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Nathaniel Smith wrote: > > > >> Travis's proposal is that we go from a large number of self-selecting > >> people putting in little bits of time to a small number of designated > >> people putting in lots of time. > > > > > > That's not what Travis, or anyone else, proposed. > > Maybe I was unclear -- all I mean here is that if we suddenly have a > few people working full-time on numpy (as Travis proposed), then that > will cause two things: > -- a massive increase in the total number of person-hours going into numpy > -- a smaller group of people will be responsible for a much larger > proportion of those person-hours > (and this is leaving aside the other ways that it can be difficult for > full-time developers and volunteers to interact -- the volunteers > aren't in the office, the full-timers may not have the patience to > wait for a long email-paced conversation before making a decision, > etc.) > > I think Travis' proposal is potentially a great thing, but it's not as > simple as just saying "hey we hired some people now our software will > be better". Ask Fred Brooks ;-) > > What, you are invoking Fred Brooks for a team of, maybe, four? Numpy ain't OS/360. Chuck
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