Re:The Cathedral and the Bizarre
by zzo38computer on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:05AM
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Not all open source software is produced by a "herd"; many are written by one person.
My own projects I write by myself; often there are no other contributors at all (although I do accept bug reports and sometimes accept contributed code too, I am the only maintainer).
SQLite is a good open source software project (there are some proprietary extensions, but the core system is open source, and there are also open source extensions which are as good as the proprietary ones if you do not need the warranties and professional support they provide), and is written by only three people. Still, the commit history is public and I often look to see what changes they will have in the next version (and in one case, even found a bug and reported it, and they quickly corrected it).
I have heard Bourbaki before but didn't know much about that, but now I look it up and I can see what it is. I did not know that Bourbaki is actually a group of mathematicians, but I looked and now I know. I also did not know that the "dangerous bend" sign used by Knuth was invented by Bourbaki.
My own projects I write by myself; often there are no other contributors at all (although I do accept bug reports and sometimes accept contributed code too, I am the only maintainer).
SQLite is a good open source software project (there are some proprietary extensions, but the core system is open source, and there are also open source extensions which are as good as the proprietary ones if you do not need the warranties and professional support they provide), and is written by only three people. Still, the commit history is public and I often look to see what changes they will have in the next version (and in one case, even found a bug and reported it, and they quickly corrected it).
I have heard Bourbaki before but didn't know much about that, but now I look it up and I can see what it is. I did not know that Bourbaki is actually a group of mathematicians, but I looked and now I know. I also did not know that the "dangerous bend" sign used by Knuth was invented by Bourbaki.