Talk:Open source software development

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[edit] Agenda for this entry

Hi!

I started working on this entry (my first post was by an unregistered user by accident). I did it because I noticed that there's a broken link for "Open source sotware development" in Brooks' Law. A lot (but not all) of what can be placed in this entry is covered in the main Open source entry. However, I think the ideas should be expanded upon.

I thought about what to put here, but still don't have a clear structure for everything. Thus, it is possible that it will resemble a brain-dump at first. I promise I will organize it later, assuming no one beats me to it. :-).

--Shlomif 19:21, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

The concept behind this article is just as flawed and poorly planned as those of the BSD and Linux article which was recently deleted. You are stretching for far too much and will only end up with a wretched and unreadable article if you don't end up with on completely filled with invalid information and gross generalizations. You should probably try to trim down your article to either one type of development or make this an index of sorts to articles which detail the particular development styles. Linux kernel, GNU tools, Apache projects, BSD derivatives, random other projects - they all do things differently. Janizary 05:55, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] duplicate subject

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_software_development_method contains the same topic, and that article is tagged to be listed in the appropriate category.

I think these two articles should be merged, but it's a ton of work to do so. --Jackson 15:42, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

It must have been an accident that both were created. Surely, with two nearly identical titles, these two articles must overlap a great deal. The articles are among the oldest marked for merger consideration (almost a year); yet almost no discussion of this proposal has taken place. It is a lot of work, but it can be done in pieces. Are there any objections to doing so? Hult041956 21:54, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Go for it if you think you can do it! Radagast83 04:41, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

I had both article sitting on my desk in hard-copy, getting psyched up to scale this mountain. This morning I see you got there first. ;-) Congratulations. There was a ton of stuff in both articles. To what extent did you actually manage to merge it all? Hult041956 16:04, 26 October 2007 (UTC)