Five Lessons Open Source Developers Should Learn from Extreme Programming (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted August 29, 2003 by ris]

This O'ReillyNet article looks at how Extreme Programming lessons can benefit open source programmers. "Open source projects usually don't have the time or budget constraints to require hard and fast release dates, but getting frequent feedback from users and customers is vital to the survival of the project. Since "customers" are often potential developers, having a good feedback loop can increase the resources at your disposal. Keeping the source code public with regular snapshots or anonymous CVS or Subversion access helps, but if features take a long time to land or to stabilize, it can be difficult to know when the code is worth using."

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