From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 10 14:11:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA22005 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 10 May 1997 14:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA21998 for ; Sat, 10 May 1997 14:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA04438; Sat, 10 May 1997 14:04:56 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199705102104.OAA04438@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: g++ shared library segfaults To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 14:04:56 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, chuckr@mat.net, moore@WOLFENET.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199705102004.NAA11689@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at May 10, 97 01:04:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > What I am looking for is for experienced programmers that can > > > > come in and do the "job" -- the job being defined as a cool > > > > document program. > > > > > > That job is about 3 man-years worth of work. > > > > Cool. If he can get 365 volunteers (and one leap-volunteer 8-)) > > then he can be done in 3 days. > > Actually, 9 pregnant women can not deliver one baby in a month. > > "Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks first published in 1975. > > For those interested the book is about managing large scale projects. > > Reducing complex problems is not the same as throwing bodies at > a project. I know. I was making the distinction between 9 motivated programmers and throwing 365 bodies at the problem. Jordan seemed to be implying that your call for programmers was a throwing of bodies, and that something that would take 3 many years was not worth pursuing on a voluntary basis. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.