bazaar n.,adj.
In 1997, after meditatating on the success
of Linux for three years, the Jargon File's own editor ESR
wrote an analytical paper on hacker culture and development models
titled The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The main argument o
that Brooks's Law is not the whole story; given the right
social machinery, debugging can be efficiently parallelized across
large numbers of programmers. The title metaphor caught on (see
also cathedral), and the style of development typical in the
Linux community is now often referred to as the bazaar mode. Its
characteristics include releasing code early and often, and
actively seeking the largest possible pool of peer reviewers.
In 1997, after meditatating on the success
of Linux for three years, the Jargon File's own editor ESR
wrote an analytical paper on hacker culture and development models
titled The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The main argument o
that Brooks's Law is not the whole story; given the right
social machinery, debugging can be efficiently parallelized across
large numbers of programmers. The title metaphor caught on (see
also cathedral), and the style of development typical in the
Linux community is now often referred to as the bazaar mode. Its
characteristics include releasing code early and often, and
actively seeking the largest possible pool of peer reviewers.
Related:
- cathedral n.,adj.
[see bazaar for derivation] The
`classical' mode of software engineering long thought to be
necessarily implied by Brooks's Law.
Features small teams, tight project control, and... - Brooks's Law prov.
"Adding manpower to a late software
project makes it later" -
a result of the fact that the expected advantage... - Mongolian Hordes technique n.
[poss. from the Sixties
counterculture expression `Mongolian clusterfuck' for a public
orgy] Development by gang bang.
Implies that large numbers of inexperienced programmers... - In fact, I think Linus's [= Linus Torvalds'] cleverest and most consequential
hack was not the construction of the Linux kernel itself,
but rather his invention of the Linux development model... - Brief History Of Linux (#28)
Free, Open, Libre, Whatever Software
Eric S.
Raymond's now famous paper, "The Cathedral and the... - Infinite-Monkey Theorem n.
"If you put an infinite
number of monkeys at typewriters,
eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet... - Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/
n.
The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and... - Brief History Of Linux (#29)
"The Cathedral and the Bazaar" is credited by many (especially ESR
himself) as the reason Netscape announced January 22,
1998 the release of the Mozilla source code. In addition... - New Linux Companies Hope To Get Rich Quick (#3)
In the "Cathedral and the Bazaar",
ESR mentions that one motivation behind Open Source...
