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 long release intervals. This term came
into use after analysis of the Linux experience suggested there
might be something wrong (or at least incomplete) in the classical
assumptions.
[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 long release intervals. This term came
into use after analysis of the Linux experience suggested there
might be something wrong (or at least incomplete) in the classical
assumptions.
Related:
- 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... - brute force adj.
Describes a primitive programming style,
one in which the programmer relies on the computer's... - Brooks's Law prov.
"Adding manpower to a late software
project makes it later" -
a result of the fact that the expected advantage... - Brief History Of Linux (#28)
Free, Open, Libre, Whatever Software
Eric S.
Raymond's now famous paper, "The Cathedral and the... - Berkeley Quality Software adj.
(often abbreviated `BQS')
Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was
apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to
solve some unique problem.
It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect... - bucky bits /buh'kee bits/ n.
1. obs. The bits produced by
the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and
400 respectively),
resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set. The... - 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... - second-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously,
`second-system syndrome') When one is designing the... - open source n.
[common; also adj. `open-source']
Term coined in March 1998 following the Mozilla release to
describe software distributed in source under licenses guaranteeing
anybody rights to freely use,
modify, and redistribute, the code. The intent...
From the same category:
- YKYBHTLW // abbrev.
Abbreviation of `You know you've been
hacking too long when.
', which became established on the Usenet group... - misbug /mis-buhg/ n.
[MIT; rare (like its referent)]
An unintended property of a program that turns out to be useful;
something that should have been a bug but turns out... - cdr /ku'dr/ or /kuh'dr/ vt.
[from LISP] To skip past
the first item from a list of things (generalized from the LISP
operation on binary tree structures,
which returns a list consisting... - HTH //
[Usenet: very common] Abbreviation: Hope This
Helps (e.g.
following a response to a technical question). Often... - daemon book n.
"The Design and Implementation of
the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System",
by Samuel J. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael...
