On 05/16/11 12:38 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
I believe that by making the process and its problems public, someone will help solve those problems as they do in many, many other projects where the work is open.
a very wise man[1] once said adding more bodies to a late project just makes it later. 9 women can't make a baby in 1 month.
this is NOT a software development project, where pieces of it can be torn off and worked on independently, then later integrated. this is a software build-and-integrate project where all the pieces have to be fit together and the bulk of the hard work is reverse engineering and recreating the correct build environment.
[1] Fredrick P. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month, 1975. 36 years later, this book's fundamental premises are just as valid.