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I'm in a hurry here, so I have only skimmed certain parts of these discussions. But I was wondering how deadlines will be maintained? I mean, a lot of us monks have busy jobs and maybe not that much spare time.

Anyway, this project seems very interesting and I'm very interested in joining...

Gotta run now!!

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(jcwren) RE: RE: Community Teaching Project II - the Call to Arms
by jcwren (Prior) on Jun 16, 2000 at 16:07 UTC
    I think we'll be trying to take as much of that as possible into account as we figure out what people want/need to work on, and what their schedules are. I expect there will be an occasional problem with something along these lines, but hopefully participants will have a good handle on how much time they realistically have available.

    On the other paw, I don't want to see this be a 12 month project. I think we've picked a project that's not so expansive that people will lose interest, nor so short term that it'll be done in a week (hope not, anyway).

    Remember, we're going to try to go through all the steps that real programmers hate: planning, writing a specification, scheduling, code reviews, etc. We may hate that part in real life, but it's something that's all part of delivering a real-world project.

    Along these lines, I wonder if we need a "motto" that reinforces that project is not an end to the means, but the means to an end.

    --Chris
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