Comments on: the briar patch http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2009/04/the-briar-patch Ben Hyde Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:10:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Notional Slurry » links for 2009-04-13 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2009/04/the-briar-patch/comment-page-1#comment-1944 Notional Slurry » links for 2009-04-13 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:02:49 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/?p=2046#comment-1944 [...] Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › the briar patch "Dan manages to imply that the problem he encountered can be tagged open-source. Coordinating consistent builds across a tangle of libraries would seem to be hard enough that it would require some orchestration. It’s actually kind of striking how well this works in the loosely inter-project world of open source. Stefano has been known to point out that the friction that rises out of solving this problem creates inter-project social energy that’s extremely valuable. Which I’ll admit to wondering if it’s not a good thing that these problems arise." (tags: open-source cultural-norms standards software-development libraries community the-public-and-its-problems) [...] [...] Ascription is an Anathema to any Enthusiasm › the briar patch "Dan manages to imply that the problem he encountered can be tagged open-source. Coordinating consistent builds across a tangle of libraries would seem to be hard enough that it would require some orchestration. It’s actually kind of striking how well this works in the loosely inter-project world of open source. Stefano has been known to point out that the friction that rises out of solving this problem creates inter-project social energy that’s extremely valuable. Which I’ll admit to wondering if it’s not a good thing that these problems arise." (tags: open-source cultural-norms standards software-development libraries community the-public-and-its-problems) [...]

]]> By: Luís http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2009/04/the-briar-patch/comment-page-1#comment-1943 Luís Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:02:38 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/?p=2046#comment-1943 Heh, I regret having picked the name "Babel". It's too good a name for what the library does. Neat graph! Heh, I regret having picked the name “Babel”. It’s too good a name for what the library does.

Neat graph!

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