[H-GEN] Today's reading: The Cathedral and the Bazaar, by esr

[Martin Pool]

Haven't finished it yet, but it looks interesting.

http://www.ccil.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-paper.html

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The Cathedral and the Bazaar

by Eric S. Raymond

$Date: 1997/09/15 22:48:58 $

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I anatomize a successful free-software project, fetchmail, that was run as a
deliberate test of some surprising theories about software engineering
suggested by the history of Linux. I discuss these theories in terms of two
fundamentally different development styles, the ``cathedral'' model of FSF
and its imitators versus the ``bazaar'' model of the Linux world. I show
that these models derive from opposing assumptions about the nature of the
software-debugging task. I then make a sustained argument from the Linux
experience for the proposition that ``Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are
shallow'', suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems
of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of
this insight for the future of software.
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1. The Cathedral and the Bazaar

2. The Mail Must Get Through

3. The Importance of Having Users

4. Release Early, Release Often

5. When Is A Rose Not A Rose?

6. Popclient becomes Fetchmail

7. Fetchmail Grows Up

8. A Few More Lessons From Fetchmail

9. Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style

10. The Social Context of Free Software

11. Acknowledgements

12. For Further Reading

13. Version



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