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bazaar n.,adj.
In 1997, after contemplating the success
of Linux for three years, the Jargon File's own editor ESR
wrote an analytical paper on hacker culture and development models
titled The Cathedral and the Bazaar. The main argument of the paper was
that Brooks's Law ia not the whole story; given the right
social machinery, debugging can be efficiently parallelized across
large numbers of programmers. The title metaphor caught on (see
also cathedral), and the style of development typical in the
Linux community is now often referred to as the bazaar mode. Its
characteristics include releasing code early and often, and
actively seeking the largest possible pool of peer reviewers.
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