Final Fit, Finish and Testing
There’s a very interesting article at linuxdevices.com describing Ari Jaaksi’s (Nokia’s open source director) recent presentation at Linux World…
"Another challenge is to interest community developers in the final fit, finish, testing, and integration phase of software development. Once the basic application service is working, a developer is happy with it. It’s only about 50 percent done, though. You still have to do internationalization, make sure it doesn’t use too much power, and other things. For that reason, Jaaksi believes that community development alone will never be able to produce finished consumer products by themselves, without corporate involvement of some kind"
It’s a very interesting view because this is the same kind of thinking that has resulted in Java ME signing and Symbian Signed. In the case of Symbian Signed, the ‘bedroom coders’ are starting to revolt. It will be interesting to see how the Linux community solve this conundrum.
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