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Re: A thought about other open source projects

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On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 01:55:36PM -0400, Brad Nicholson wrote:
> Scott Marlowe wrote:
> >>As with phrases like, "the quickest way to grill a unicorn steak,"
> >>that it can be stated in a few words does not make in possible.
> >
> >Exactly.  The big issue here is that nobody's saying what kind of
> >app they want to write.
> Or what sort of performance requirements are tied to that app.

It's not performance requirements that tend to tank such projects, but
the amount of maintenance involved.  Extending the app gets
quadratically painful.

Cheers,
David.
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