[opensource-dev] Open Viewer Development Announcement

[Oz Linden (Scott Lawrence)]

  On 2010-08-15 14:01, Glen Canaday wrote:
> This does sound much better than the previous way of doing things - more
> open and closer to the Bazaar, etc., but I want to ask how it came
> about. What was the impetus? Is this a direct result of Phil's return to
> more active involvement with LL in general? Is it simply the desire of
> the devs added to opportunity and freedom thus made into reality?

As a general rule I don't want to spend list time/space discussing 
internal LL decision making processes, but for this one I'll be happy to 
make a limited exception.

This change in how we do viewer development is a result of taking a good 
hard self-critical look at what was working and what wasn't, and trying 
to find a better way.  It was clear that:

    * Viewer 2 would have benefited from earlier exposure to residents
      so that we got feedback.
    * We were not able to import as much good work from open source as
      we want using the two-viewer model.
    * Having multiple large features all trying to get into one
      integration stream to create 'big bang' releases creates delays.
    * Doing short cycle scrum-driven development worked well.
    * Distributed version control (hg vs svn) worked well.

The leaders of the new Snowstorm team collectively took those and other 
factors and proposed the new structure.  Obviously, that proposal was 
adopted.   Details of how the discussions went are not really 
important.  You've all seen the one-slide strategic imperatives that 
we've adopted, and Snowstorm is designed to fit them.

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