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2009-04-20 , 06:03
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#27
Originally Posted by lcuk View Post
Being secretive and developing behind closed doors allows a group to focus on the vision and spec without ending up with a stinking pile of committee driven code.
My favourite example for proving this are Dan's elaborations on Novell's gnome-main-menu development (the technical details are outdated nowadays, but his points from 2006 are still valid: Bike shed, stop energy). See http://mail.gnome.org/archives/deskt.../msg00115.html .
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