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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-announce] Announcing KDE 3.2
From:       Adriaan de Groot <adridg () cs ! kun ! nl>
Date:       2004-02-06 17:27:31
Message-ID: 200402061827.31514.adridg () cs ! kun ! nl
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On Friday 06 February 2004 10:59, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> Besides from the last sentence sounding a bit dramatically
> I fully agree: urging developers to do this or that would not
> work in most cases since: it reduced freedom == it reduces fun.

I was talking to a collegue yesterday about process - software development 
process, that is. His theory (note, btw, that this whole tupping thread is 
anecdotal, and there's no particular reason to accept anyone's statements as 
more than opinion; there is no "authority" here) is that people who 
absolutely refuse to do anything with process, that is the folks who say 
"freedom == fun", have never actually _tried_ to use a process. It's not a 
straightjacket. It does require some minimum of self-discipline, though. A 
process can be as lightweight as "look at the bugs list for you app once a 
week, pick one, and fix it. Spend the rest of your time doing what's fun." 

> What about trying to form a team of people who do nothing
> else than fixing bugs?

See (ugh, /.) 
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/01/2048217&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=126&tid=172&tid=185 \
 for one attempt at building a group that does nothing but fix bugs.



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       pub  1024D/FEA2A3FE 2002-06-18 Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org>
The users that I support would double-click on a landmine to see what it did.
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