Why Your Software Project Is Failing

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @03:29AM from the take-your-pick dept.

An anonymous reader writes: At OSCON this year, Red Hat's Tom Callaway gave a talk entitled "This is Why You Fail: The Avoidable Mistakes Open Source Projects STILL Make." In 2009, Callaway was starting to work on the Chromium project—and to say it wasn't a pleasant experience was the biggest understatement Callaway made in his talk. Callaway said he likes challenges, but he felt buried by the project, and reached a point where he thought he should just quit his work. (Callaway said it's important to note that Chromium's code is not bad code; it's just a lot of code and a lot of code that Google didn't write.) This was making Callaway really frustrated, and people wanted to know what was upsetting him. Callaway wanted to be able to better explain his frustration, so he crafted this list which he called his "Points of Fail."

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Sounds inept. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-07-28 03:59 · Score: 0, Troll

If your code depends on Microsoft Visual Anything (you get 100 points of fail)
Riiiiight. Like there are _totally_ no highly successful open source .NET or Windows native C/C++ projects out there.
We really need to get past this whole neckbeardy thing of thinking that using only 30 year old editors as your IDE is something real professionals actually do.