[Glass] Fwd: The Ultimate Smalltalk Tutorial

[Paul Baumann via Glass]

It is funny how the software development process had evolved. First there
were passionate individuals making tremendous progress with pride in their
work. Then more developers were added to teams to "increase productivity".
Coordination challenges caused bugs and disagreement. SDLC age was born,
analysis and design process exploded development costs and demotivated best
contributors. Lots of finger pointing and long development cycles in which
major bugs took more work to avoid than fix. Agile and continuous
integration to the rescue, it allowed good contributors to cut through the
overhead and be productive again. Alas, we still have scrum meetings to
share status (and often details) that few others really appreciate anyway.
Most advancements still come from passionate developers that are actively
managing code that they have personal pride in.

Paul Baumann

On Oct 26, 2016 3:55 PM, "Dale Henrichs via Glass" <
glass at lists.gemtalksystems.com> wrote:

> A little cartoon and article popped up on the Pharo mailing list and I
> thought it was relevant :)
>
> Dale
>
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] The Ultimate Smalltalk Tutorial
> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:53:15 -0700
> From: Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com>
> <dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com>
> To: pharo-users at lists.pharo.org
>
>
>
> On 10/26/16 12:13 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> On the issue of contributing to Free, Libre, Open Source Software (FLOSS)
> projects, I have been reading recently Nadia Eghbal and her analysis that
> confirm that most FLOSS projects are done by individuals and small teams,
> which is contrary to the bazaar narrative. This comic shows the point:
>
> and you can find more details here: https://medium.com/@nayafia/
> what-success-really-looks-like-in-open-source-2dd1facaf91c#.e360z53sf
>
> After skimming the actual article and finding that the points made in the
> article are valid I would have wished that the right panel in the cartoon
> had said "one more pull request before going to bed" since that is closer
> to what the article is about ... an active, community that contributes is
> also an important component and something that Pharo/Smalltalk community
> does indeed have.
>
> Dale
>
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