{"id":190,"date":"2006-08-11T09:17:29","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T16:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/08\/11\/open-source-is-agile\/"},"modified":"2006-08-11T09:17:29","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T16:17:29","slug":"open-source-is-agile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/08\/11\/open-source-is-agile\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Source is agile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not talking about the methodology in particular, I&#8217;m just saying compared to traditional software engineering practices with customer advisory boards vetting major features, rounds of marketing approvals of features, etc.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, I submitted a Jira case to the Pentaho development staff for including a jar in our demo application need to run certain Pentaho Data Integration mappings.&nbsp; In 20 hrs the jar had been included (already vetted for license since it&#8217;s part of another project) and is now part of the daily builds.&nbsp; This is the oil that makes the open source machine great; ability for software (Pentaho as a project) to respond to real customer needs (from me).&nbsp; It&#8217;s awesome!<\/p>\n<p>Now that reminds me, I hadn&#8217;t highlighted some of the cool new &#8220;open source &#8212; eee&#8221; things at Pentaho yet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jira.pentaho.org:8080\/\">Public Issue\/Feature Roadmap:<\/a><br \/>We have launched Jira as a place to track new feature requests, bug submissions, etc.&nbsp; I greatly encourage you to register and begin using it to submit bugs \/ suggestions.&nbsp; Can&#8217;t always say they&#8217;ll get fixed in 20 hours but they have a MUCH GREATER chance of being fixed if they&#8217;re in Jira in addition to the forums.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pentaho.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=category&amp;sectionid=6&amp;id=63&amp;Itemid=276\">Public Source Control:<\/a><br \/>While we&#8217;ve always published our source with every release that source repository wasn&#8217;t available to anyone on an anonymous basis.&nbsp; We&#8217;re hosting a subversion now that allows easier access and contribution from our always valued community.&nbsp; Consider this an open invitation to dig in, build a cool plugin, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad these two things have happened; I think it just makes communication easier, effective, and more transparent.&nbsp; What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not talking about the methodology in particular, I&#8217;m just saying compared to traditional software engineering practices with customer advisory boards vetting major features, rounds of marketing approvals of features, etc. For instance, I submitted a Jira case to the Pentaho development staff for including a jar in our demo application need to run certain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}