The Open Source Development Cycle Exposed

I seem to be doing this a lot recently but here's my tongue in cheek description of the open source development cycle. Hopefully you guys will find it amusing!

Step 1:

Version x of an open source project finally becomes stable enough to use. When looking at the original project plan much of the envisaged feature set has not yet been implemented and there are some niggling bugs which may be show stoppers for certain people, but for the majority it works OK (they have learnt to work around the bugs and missing features anyway). What's left to do wouldn't take long to implement but the few guys left working on the project have grown up and got real jobs so development has slowed to a crawl.

Posted by Daniel: 9:29, Mon 28th Mar 2011