[Glastonbury] an idea

[Kelvin McNulty]

I wrote this before I read all the correspondence on the subject.

I still think it is a good idea. Even as I wrote that, I was aware of all=
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pitfalls that Martin metnioned, in particular the horribleness of trying =
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meet some deadline having underestimated by a factor of three or so the=20
amount of time it will take to do.

Years ago when I worked for Plessey my line manager was doing some projec=
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planning. He'd allocated a task to me and he asked me how long I thought =
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would take. "Six weeks", I said.

He said "Can you do it in two?" and when I said "No" he said "We need you=
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do it in two..."

No wonder it overran threefold.

Yes for sure it does not take long to do something. It does take, though,=
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long as it takes to test it thoroughly through all possible cases and fix=
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the things you had not anticipated... the biggest pitfall of all is think=
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something is easy when it isn't.

Best,

Kelvin

On Sunday 03 August 2003 08:58, Kelvin McNulty wrote (quoting Mike's mess=
age):
> "The proposal is that we seed or create, or support a Linux market plac=
e.