From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Ada open source
Date: 15 Jun 2004 11:07:57 -0600
Date: 2004-06-15T11:07:57-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <M30d5jM$HuBn@eisner.encompasserve.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.111.1087311542.391.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
In article <mailman.111.1087311542.391.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>, "Andrew Carroll" <andrew@carroll-tech.net> writes:
> A quote from slashdot:
>
> "...There's some guy out there using ___ who wants to use something
> else, but can't because he needs one tiny feature that nothing else has.
> This is a major weakness of Open Source because since software is under
> constant development and bug fixing and security hole patching is
> priority, few programs ever become feature complete..."
>
> What do you all think of that statement?
"Feature complete" is based on the project plan for a particular release.
Chasing features without a project plan, or being unwilling to withhold
features once they have been originally scheduled, leads to defects,
sometimes euphemistically described as "bugs".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-15 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-15 15:16 Ada open source Andrew Carroll
2004-06-15 15:15 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-15 15:21 ` Frank J. Lhota
2004-06-15 21:49 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-06-16 19:33 ` Simon Wright
2004-06-15 17:07 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
2004-06-16 3:00 ` Steve
2004-06-16 3:47 ` Brian May
2004-06-21 16:28 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-06-21 19:11 ` Larry Kilgallen
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