An old publication more relevant now than ever - The Cathedral and the Bazaar. A comparison of software practices in the early 2000s with some retrospective to how great software is built.

I think much of the writing can be applied to today’s federated content models.

In particular:

  • The Mail Must Get Through
  • Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style
  • The Importance of Having Users
  • echindod
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    1 year ago

    This is an interesting article. I don’t know anything about kernel development, but I wonder if it’s still true?

    • surely_not_a_bot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s more true than ever! Not really just about kernel development, bit just development in general (see node/npm, etc) and the fact that you need someone to own quality as it doesn’t happen by itself.