Al Kossow <aek(a)bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 7/2/24 9:51 PM, sjenkin(a)canb.auug.org.au wrote:
I’ve never seen a large Open Source project
succeed when attempting to use modern “Project Management” techniques.
Managing an open source project is like herding a pack of alpha male tomcats with their
own agendas that you can't fire.
I think this is true only of the large projects. As Clem has argued,
when there's a single strong leader, it's different (Linus, Guido van
Rossum, bash and gawk are such examples).
Arnold