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If you had a codebase that was developed over a few years by 200 different remote contractors, thats a recipe for disaster regardless of their nationality.
by headcanon 10y ago
If you had a codebase that was developed over a few years by 200 different remote contractors, thats a recipe for disaster regardless of their nationality.
- nsgi 10y agoWhy should it be any more of a disaster than an open source project?
- devnonymous 10y agoI suggest that you (re)read Cathedral and the Bazaar if you really are curious about the difference between a project worked on by 200 odd developers in a company and an open source project. The more we learn the less we know.
- mistermann 10y agoI would wager that open source projects are most likely some of the best run projects in the world.
- zeroxfe 10y agoFor one thing, an open source project typically has a stable set of one or more core contributors, who really care about the project.
- mehwoot 10y agoAn open source project is primarily composed of people writing some software out of passion with few hard deadlines. A team of 200 developers, some off shore, are developing in order to get paid for a client who likely has strict time and budget constraints. I'm not sure I could come up with many scenarios that I would expect to see a wider gap in code quality, even if the developers were the same level of skill.
- rak00n 10y agoAlso it's easier to nope a bad decision for OSS. Office politics makes it way difficult.