[sakai-pmc] Interesting question on Software development lifecycle

[Charles Severance]

Neal - I agree that we should not pigeonhole ourselves as ot a methodology - I would emphasize that we are open source like Apache.

We coordinate across the community for QA and releases but the primary "coordination" is distributed decision making like most open source projects.

/Chuck

On Oct 10, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Neal Caidin <neal.caidin at apereo.org> wrote:

> Hi PMC,
> 
> I thought this might be of interest to the PMC. If not, I'll write something up myself to send, no worries.
> 
> We received the following question through our web site:
> 
> "Hi There,
> 
> We are already using Sakai in our college. I would like to know which SDLC/SE
> model SAKAI is using. Is it Water fall?
> Your help is important to me. Please do reply.
> 
> Thanks in Advance"
> 
> I assume SDLC = Software Development Life Cycle.  Not sure what "/SE" means.
> 
> I don't see our community as following a strict waterfall or agile methodology. For a major, not maintenance release, I think instead of trying to pigeonhole us into a methodology I might describe how we use a community wiki for our scope definition and refinement, created a schedule that allows plenty of time for iterative bug fixes and translations into many languages, and then a final round of quality assurance testing followed by packaging the software into convenient forms for download.
> 
> How does that sound?
> 
> Thanks,
> Neal Caidin
> Sakai Community Coordinator
> 

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