Subject: RE: [hackers-il] An Analysis of the Joel Test in regards to OS [w as Re: Rules for Open Source development (the serious version)]

From: Omer Musaev <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:28:59 +0200

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shlomi Fish [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 4:32 PM
> To: [email-masked]'
> Subject: [hackers-il] An Analysis of the Joel Test in regards 
> to OS [was
> Re: Rules for Open Source development (the serious version)]
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> 9. Do you have the best tools money can buy?
> 
> I think it can be skipped, since every programmer can use his 
> preferable
> tools. If the project can only be compiled with specific 
> tools, then there
> might be a problem.
> 

> 
> Other than those the following should be added:
> 
> 1. A mailing list, IRC channel, and E-mail address for 
> questions, etc. -
> 
> A project cannot scale without them

I think that Joel had in mind collaboration tools as well as 
coding tools. So, IMHO, mailing list, IRC channel and email address
are tools, and you"d better use the best you can have. This way
of expressing your thought maps it into Joel's number 9.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
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