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 developme

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.