On Fri, 21 May 2004, David Berry wrote:
> Tim
>
> > I'm not sure what the agenda is for the programmer's meeting but what do
> > people feel about putting aside 4 hours to "tiger team" the CVS import?
> > Huge progress could be made with everyone working together and bouncing
> > ideas off each other (we would join in from Hawaii). [but then I'm an
> > idealist and I'm not sure how many of the programmer's have laptops...]
>
> Pardon the appalling ignorance, but what exactly does the verb
> "to tiger-team" imply? You mean actually doing something rather than just
> talking about it?
>
Sorry. "Tiger team" in JAC sense is not quite the same as the original
sense:
http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/t/tiger_team.html
but implies a focussed group of individuals working towards a single goal
(eg building ccdpack from CVS) with no other interruptions and limited
timescale. Locking every one in a room all hacking on the CVS repository
should be a great experience.
At OSCON (Open Source conference) they do something similar - everyone
gets in a room and attempts to, say, fix x-hundred bugs from the bug
database. Al, Brad and I made enormous progress on the perl AST interface
by using this approach (all sat round a table and coded and argued for 8
hours).
--
Tim Jenness
JAC software
http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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