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Re: Deity project schedule problems

> Brian> Perhaps you have not heard of "The Mythical Man-Month".  You
> Brian> cannot just add developers and expect the project to catch up.
> 
>         I do not think we have reached that point.

No it hasn't that point.  I was merely giving a general reply to a simplistic
comment.


>         If you are already at the point where more time would be spent
>  getting people upto speed and deciding what is to be done, then the
>  project is seriously mismanaged. (Pardon me for being harsh; but this
>  is what I do for a living -- I troubleshoot large projects. It is
>  often necessary to not pull punches).

I don't want pulled punches.  What I do want is for someone to let me do
my job without interference.  Advice and (private) criticism are fine.  I
make plenty of mistakes.  I admit it openly.  But I do my damnest to learn
from them and fix them.


>         Alist tat people cannot subscribe to is closed. I do believe
>  that a tightly focussed thematic mailing list restricted to the
>  developers can be made to work. You have talent out there that you
>  are ignoring; and you could have retained the fiat power to kill
>  endless arguments.

I've never seen any "fiat" power to kill arguements in Debian.  Bruce has
tried endless times with no effect.

While a decent idea, I have seen no evidence that it would actually work.
Perhaps the list could be digested and made available that way?  That would
surely be enough to avoid the vast majority of the noise.

Of course, it still brings politics back into it.  As a small, self-contained
group, there is no politics.  As soon as it opens up, it's all there.


>         All this would be moot if things were on track. So sorry, the
>  perception at this end is that things are not on track. The veil of
>  secrecy does little to disabuse me.

I'm not trying to be secretive.  I've done my best to provide information
to all that requested it.

Things are not on track.  They are going much slower than I had hoped.  A
major problem has been brought to my attention and I am doing what I can to
fix it.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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