Hello FOSSians,
Fundamentally is FOSS development methodolgy analytically structured ?
As we see, almost any FOSS s/w development activity is caried out in an adhoc
manner and most of the decisions are made out of human instincts.
More particularly the following points need clarification
1) Is any FOSS software development activity carried out conforming to Software
Engineering Standards ?
2) As in any SDLC workflow (carried out in formal Software Engineering
practices),
??????? a) is there any well-defined documentation available at each stage of
project progress, so that
??????????? those documentation would serve for future reference & revisiting
at any future point of time.
??????? b) by the term "documentation" i mean the documents of SRS, Design
Specification, Project Plan, Cost-??????????????????? Estimation, Execution
Plan, Contingency Plan and so like.
??????? c) so the point is, when such things get documented, the process by
itself would render a blue-print before
??????????? hand the solution is implemented and for this same reason only any
formal Engineering level work
??????????? is?carried out in that way.
??????????? So now, the Q'n is does FOSS adhere to formal Engineering practices
?
??????????? If not then for what other one or more reasons we should embrace
FOSS ?
??????????? Iam raising this Q'n as a responsible Engineer.
??????????? Also I can tell that if FOSS donot adhere to any formal Engineering
practices, then Iam sure that most of
??????????? the?activities done would yield themselves redundant and that would
spell?an eddy-current in the dynamics ??? ??? ??? of economics. How can
such?a?scenario be usefull for a layman user/consumer in every-day life ?
Let us try to (re)engineer the entire problem.
Thanks,
Selvakumar.
