1. Does Raymond think that debugging is easier or harder in an open source project? (Compared to traditional development.) Why?
He says that debugging is much easier.
Reason: Many people will be looking over the code and suggesting fixes; or All bugs are simple, if enough people look at them; or Debugging is parallelizable; or All bugs are shallow with enough eyeballs.
2. Raymond claims that traditional managers are not needed in open source development. My reply disagrees with him. Why do I think he is wrong?
I think Raymond is just replacing the traditional manager with the open source project leader. or,I claim that the project leader (such as Raymond or Torvalds) does all the same things that a traditional manager does. or,
I take Raymond's list of the things that a traditional manager does, and show that Raymond and Torvalds did all these things themselves.
Copyright 2001, Charles H. Connell Jr.