____/ Linonut on Saturday 23 February 2008 03:52 : \____
> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> ____/ Linonut on Friday 22 February 2008 18:45 : \____
>>
>>> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
>>>
>>>> As a matter of fact (no bashing), Windows' leadership is gone, a manager
>>>> was borrowed from the Office team IIRC, and most of the Windows (codebase)
>>>> gurus left also, which leaves just the rookies to deal with a beast
>>>> (frankenbuild is they call it internally because there's poor modularity
>>>> and separation, ...
>>>
>>> Who told you that? Not that I find that unbelievable, even small shops
>>> like ours have build problems now and then.
>>
>> I read this in several reliable places. In fact, several years ago (about 2
>> when I wasn't plonking anyone) Erik F admitted this here (that Windows
>> needed to be made more modular).
>
> Actually, I was more interested in the term "Frankenbuild".
I saw it in at least one place, IIRC, including Mary's blog.
Hmmm...
Now that I check this...
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&num=50&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=Frankenbuild
It was used in a different context.
There's also Young FrankenSteve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6rqXHX3O48
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