The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Release Early, Release Often
When Is A Rose Not A Rose ?
The Mail Must Get Through
The Importance of Having Users
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Linux is subversive
Linus Torvalds’s style of development
To work with linux was hard
release early
came as a surprise
Linux community seemed to resemble a great babbling
was hard try to understand
CCIL
It support three thousand users
on thirty lines
It allowed access to the net
through ccil’s 56K line
program that would reach out overmy intermittent dialup connection
and pull across the mail to be delivered locally
Now is used a simple application protocol
called pop
Necessity is the mother of invention
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s
personal itch.
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what
to rewrite
Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow
If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you
When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to
hand it o: to a competent successor
Users are wonderful things to have, and It
demonstrate that you’re serving a need
Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to
rapid code improvement and e:ective debugging
And you’ve
done something right
Early and frequent releases are a critical part of the Linux development
model
This belief reinforced the general commitment to a cathedral building
style of development
Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers
it work like a dog on debugging
between releases
Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow
Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the
other way around
If you treat your beta-testers as if they’re your most valuable
resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource