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I read an article from the early 2K's about Oracle developing its 10g database line. It had development teams strategically positioned through the globe so that

by bpyne 11y ago

I read an article from the early 2K's about Oracle developing its 10g database line. It had development teams strategically positioned through the globe so that development could continue 24 hours/day. I never saw a followup article about the effect on the database quality or issues around handing off a code base from team-to-team multiple times a day. I also have to wonder if Oracle still develops its software that way.

jazzyk 11y ago
Judging by the quality of some of the code I had a chance to look at (not the DB), the software was probably a bloated mess :-) That said, continuous development seems to work for open source projects, though typically each module has an owner and other people submit change requests, people don;t just overwrite other developer's code indiscriminately.