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LPC: Development model diversityLPC: Development model diversityPosted Sep 9, 2011 12:49 UTC (Fri) by fuhchee (subscriber, #40059)Parent article: LPC: Development model diversity
It would be an interesting project to create something beyond just enumerating of these styles, to make this more quantitative & useful. For example, do some stats that correlate people styles to project styles. Create a taxonomy of project model aspects, and of measurements to evaluate their effectiveness. Basically, create something by which people can decide what particular changes are likely to help, given their situation, instead of just throwing up all the possibilities and advising a random walk.
But then again, perhaps FOSS projects are too small compared (in size and population) to proprietary ones, so we'd never get enough data to be meaningful.
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LPC: Development model diversity Posted Sep 9, 2011 16:43 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Whether a style is effective or not depends on many factors that are hard to disentangle, like the personalities of the developers, the size of the group, and the structure of the problem to be solved. There's also the issue of having enough data to make sound conclusions: if there's only one project with a given combination of attributes that you're studying and it is exceptionally well-run, you can't conclude from this that the attributes you're studying are the reason for its success.
LPC: Development model diversity Posted Sep 9, 2011 18:10 UTC (Fri) by allison (subscriber, #56202) [Link]
That's a very good idea. If you're interested in following up on it, please join http://flossfoundations.org. We've spent a good bit if time comparing and contrasting governance models over the years, but haven't condensed the information in a systematic way.
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