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When over a thousand people work on a single project and tens to hundreds on a single submodule, there can be no real "personal taste" entering the equation or

• ema 9y ago
  A lot of stuff is objective[1] but not everything is and there we can't really do better than "personal taste". A coherent vision by one person might rub me the wrong way but a design by committee will certainly do so. [1] in a practical sense, I'm very skeptical of absolute objectivity.
• jerf 9y ago
  If nothing else, someone picks the code style, even if that code style is "anybody do what they want". Personal taste can not be removed from the equation, so you need people who can work with a project even if it doesn't entirely meet their taste. And I just mean that as one irrefutable example to prove the point; it is far from the only one. I find that unless your taste is very unrefined, you can practice even in your own fully isolated and independent projects, because even my own personal projects pretty much never 100% conform to my own personal taste....