| From | Systemkennung Linux <> | Subject | Re: Take a deep breath... | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 1997 20:00:23 +0200 (MET DST) |
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> I almost guarantee that 10% more effort put into documentation and > commenting would reap great rewards in terms of contributed input from the > community at large. Then, you CAN go off and design and implement the > "latest and greatest" - AFTER having paved the way for others to maintain > and fine-tune the previous "latest and greatest".
Experience I made with the Linux/MIPS project: a small number of people is actually strong enough to contribute to the project. Those don't handholding and if they ask question it is because is because of very unobvious things or because of external things that can not be found in the code. Almost the entire rest of developers doesn't have what it would take them to bite through the mass of minor and major showstoppers even with handholding.
Ralf
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