On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 6 Jul 2011, at 23:19, Rob Weir wrote: > >> I think we're transitioning from a formally coordinated model led by a >> corporation to a model that will have less formal coordination >> structures. This is necessary to grow the project in the absence of >> corporate control. But it will take some time to get used to it. > > I've always assumed that the extremely careful approach the development team > was using was more a function of the size, complexity and intra-dependency of > the code than of corporate control. It is amazing how a small, obvious change > in one part of OOo can result in a nasty intermittent fault in another part... >
I've heard rumors of large C/C++ software applications where this is not true, but I have yet to see one. -Rob
