Subject:
|
Re: Suggestions for posting articles using web interface
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.admin.general
|
Date:
|
Sat, 22 Jul 2000 19:37:03 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
3897 times
|
| |
|
|
The truck factor is basically, AFAIK, how many trucks it would take to wipe out the
company/project/whatever.
One truck hitting a car Todd is in would pretty much destroy Lugnet, and that's
BAD.
That's why most companies won't let all of their executives travel on the same
train/bus/plane at once.
Richard Franks wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> > In lugnet.admin.general, Jeff Thompson writes:
> >
> > > (I'd be glad to help implement this! Is Lugnet an open-source or
> > > a closed-source project?)
> >
> > I believe it's closed source, and has truck factor 1.
>
> I don't understand the truck reference, but LUGNET wouldn't need to be open-
> source to benefit from multiple developers working on encapsulatable tasks.
> Semi-closed-source?
>
> Although, I imagine that creating encapsulatable tasks and managing the merging
> process isn't almost as much fun as writing everything by yourself!
>
> I wouldn't want to ask Todd to make developing LUGNET any less fun for himself,
> at least until LUGNET starts turning a net profit :)
>
> Richard
--
Tom Stangl
***http://www.vfaq.com/
***DSM Visual FAQ home
***http://ba.dsm.org/
***SF Bay Area DSMs
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
17 Messages in This Thread:
 
 
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
