[kde-announce] Announcing KDE 3.2

[Adriaan de Groot]

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On Friday 06 February 2004 10:59, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> Besides from the last sentence sounding a bit dramatically
> I fully agree: urging developers to do this or that would not
> work in most cases since: it reduced freedom == it reduces fun.

I was talking to a collegue yesterday about process - software development 
process, that is. His theory (note, btw, that this whole tupping thread is 
anecdotal, and there's no particular reason to accept anyone's statements as 
more than opinion; there is no "authority" here) is that people who 
absolutely refuse to do anything with process, that is the folks who say 
"freedom == fun", have never actually _tried_ to use a process. It's not a 
straightjacket. It does require some minimum of self-discipline, though. A 
process can be as lightweight as "look at the bugs list for you app once a 
week, pick one, and fix it. Spend the rest of your time doing what's fun." 

>    What about trying to form a team of people who do nothing
>    else than fixing bugs?

See (ugh, /.) 
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/01/2048217&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=126&tid=172&tid=185 
for one attempt at building a group that does nothing but fix bugs.



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       pub  1024D/FEA2A3FE 2002-06-18 Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org>
The users that I support would double-click on a landmine to see what it did.
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