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Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like
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Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like |
Date: |
Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:24:25 +0900 |
Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
>> Yet a third is that when we decide to do it, we can converge on a
>> releasable state with almost absurd ease. Like, Ivanovic (our release
>> manager) will announce "Point release scheduled this coming Wednesday"
>> and everyone will pretty much flip into bug-stomping mode. The tracker
>> bug list tends to shrink dramatically when this happens -- not only do
>> we get prepared for release but *we know we've done so*.
>
> Eric, how well do you think this could work at all for Emacs?
I suspect that 90% of the difference in "responsiveness" between the two
projects has to do with the people (and numbers of people) involved, not
with the tools being used.
Emacs has a rather small developer base, and most of the developers are
fairly busy with other things. A project with lots of developers that
are more intensely involved in development is naturally going to be more
reponsive.
Certainly the tools make _some_ difference, but I think ESR is
drastically overestimating how much of one. If Emacs development were
at a faster pace (perhaps because the developer base change), then maybe
the tools would become a limiting factor, but I don't think they are now.
[BTW, one thing I think _would_ be very handy, and easy to implement,
would be an IRC channel for Emacs developers, just for those random
questions you wanna get a quick answer to sometimes... There's #emacs on
irc.freenode.net, but it's more user-level.]
-Miles
--
"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're
just making him madder and madder." -- Homer Simpson
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, (continued)
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Nick Roberts, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Miles Bader, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Miles Bader, 2007/12/31
- Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Alan Mackenzie, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Eric S. Raymond, 2007/12/31
Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like, Nick Roberts, 2007/12/31