The Cathedral and the Bazaar.

[Fare Rideau]

>: Jerry Fass

> Here is a very useful, and fascinating, document.
> It shows how free software systems evolve,
> via theory *and* experiment.
> Anyone interested in free software should read it.
> If implemented for Tunes, it can aid the Tunes effort.

Yeah, and the original author's address for the document is
http://www.ccil.org/~esr/writings/cathedral.html
It also includes RealAudio recordings of a speech on which
the article is based.

The article has been pointed to by the Tunes Review subproject for
a long time (almost ever since the article was available on the Web).
See
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/rideau/Tunes/Review/Other.html

> It may explain why Tunes progress is so slow.
The real reason is that I'm a lazy slob, unfit to manage a project.
But well, until someone takes over, project management falls back to me.
I've only finished now to fill my tunes.org registration form.

Been reading a lot about Reflection in various computing settings:
most notably in proof systems (Coq, NuPrl), and rewrite logics
(Maude, SPIKE), or just adhoc object systems (ABCL/R2, RScheme).
Also been reading implementation notes for RScheme, CMUCL, etc.

The Bazaar style of development would require that we release often.
But release what? We don't have anything particular to release;
we don't even have a clear design. It's in most part my fault.
Would someone maintain a list of tasks that can be done for Tunes *now*?

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