[Ilugc] is FOSS methodology structured ?
- From: selva_rsr@xxxxxxxxx (Selvakumar Rajeswaran)
- Date: Wed Dec 17 22:39:27 2008
Hi,
I see excellent roadmaps in FOSS projects. And much unlike Microsoft's
Vista's roadmap, which was expected to release in 2003 and came out in 2006,
most are almost on track.
I wish the roadmaps that you see are much unlike that of BOSS (given &
questionably excellently supported by CDAC) too.
Also the longest step in any SE process(maintenance) is best applied to FOSS
since if the lead dev quits, we have either a fork or a set of developers
taking up
the same project.(audacious from xmms)
Testing is comprehensive too.(Alphas, betas, RCs). This is too slightly
different
from the Cathedral style since we have nothing to hide from the people here.
So
we can involve them more in testing. Testers are always welcome at any
project.
All the above scenarios are just plain depiction without adequate parametric
quantification, as such scenarios usually happen in both FOSS projects and
non-FOSS projects as they are intrinsic in any development process.
Any system is said to have good maintenability if its maintenance requirement
is nearly-zero ie, maintenance-free (or atleast to the practicaly minimum
possible extent). So, FOSS obviously doesn't qualify to have a good
maintenability (as wherever we turn our heads we hear about bug-fixing in
FOSS).
Thanks,
Selvakumar.
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