On 27.8.2004 9:58 Uhr, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
Christian Stocker wrote:
Actually, other people i talk to are always impressed, how this "chaotic", based-on-common-agreement developement process actually works at all ;)
Well, one reason might be no matter how fuzzy the process there are some very clear metrics for the result, like e.g. "compiles", "passes tests" or, a little more fuzzy but still rather fact-based, "works". And you can apply all these to different scales of changes. Combine this with the fact that the effort needed to implement changes does not include any noticable cost of creating a copy first and you'll find that creating software is very different to other forms of science, engineering and art.
I wanted to compare it to other software projects (notably I spoked to some Mozilla guys about that topic and also some "commercial/proprietary" software developers), not to science et al.
I'm an engineer by education, so I wouldn't dare to try to compare PHP developement process to eg. building a sewage plant (yeah, I learned how to do that ;) )
chregu
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