tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post5995684949082140159..comments2024-03-04T06:09:18.295+00:00Comments on open...: The Doctor Who Model of Open SourceGlyn Moodyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-6059272474202338972009-06-21T09:18:16.913+00:002009-06-21T09:18:16.913+00:00@Egon: many thanks for fleshing out (in more sense...@Egon: many thanks for fleshing out (in more sense than one) some details. It's a fascinating subject - well, fascinating two subjects (a Dr Who fan writes....)Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-5504285121604638592009-06-21T09:14:36.304+00:002009-06-21T09:14:36.304+00:00What Peter's blog does not describe in detail,...What Peter's blog does not describe in detail, which is, obviously reality, is that the Doctor's death is just virtual... Let me explain.<br /><br />As one of the Doctors mentioned in Peter's article, I would like to point out that I deliberately stepped down as Doctor, feeling that my follow up, first lieutenant at the time, Miguel/Michael, was quite capable of leading the development, where my attention was better spent on another Blue Obelisk project, the Chemistry Development Kit. <br /><br />In that sense, I plotted my own murder, but it should be considered as one of those TV scenes where it stays unclear the person is really death (the body might be a poor homeless, though not sure this kind of scenarios is used in the Dr Who series too): if the need arises, I will step up back as project leader of Jmol, but the current leader, Bob, is enjoying him too much at this moment to expect this in the near future.<br /><br />Reality is, of course, a bit more complex then the model, but I think the Dr. Who model is an interesting suggestion. Not that novel, BTW, because it merely is a kind of forking, where the original just got abandoned.<br /><br />BTW, I think our perception of long-lived Doctor's biased: icons like Linus immediately pop up as project leaders... there is, however, maybe the so-called, long-tail of smaller projects that do not hit our radar. If we indeed would do the statistics right (tm), we would likely have enough data points to see that the Dr. Who model extends beyond chemistry.Egon Willighagenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07470952136305035540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-26017353602679158312009-06-17T14:20:51.705+00:002009-06-17T14:20:51.705+00:00We're certainly lacking data points, but that&...We're certainly lacking data points, but that's what makes the discussion interesting. (Facts? Who needs them?)Glyn Moodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04436885795882611585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19798349.post-7090739468853187212009-06-17T14:13:19.603+00:002009-06-17T14:13:19.603+00:00Obviously they've not heard of the Valeyard (a...Obviously they've not heard of the Valeyard (as introduced), the Doctor's penultimate reincarnation and thoroughly evil.<br /><br />I think you could say that the only reason this isn't so obvious in the open source BDFL model is because the BDFL is still living or hasn't decided to retire and that model doesn't relate to the job the BDFL has as any point in time necessarily. I imagine Perl will continue beyond Larry Wall - it may even reach the 6.0 release.<br /><br />Whether though open source can suffer other things happening to the lead developer is another interesting question (I'm thinking file system developers who are also murderers and the like).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com