01534nas a2200133   4500008004100000022001400041245010500055210006900160260004200229520105300271100001601324700002401340856003601364       2008                        eng d  a1913-610200aOpen Source and Open Standards: Working Together for Effective Software Development and Distribution0 aOpen Source and Open Standards Working Together for Effective So  aOttawabTalent First Networkc11/20083 aMany open source projects implement open standards. We interviewed five developers who implemented different open standards in open source projects to find out how much interplay there was between implementors and standards developers and how important this communication was as they programmed the details of the specifications. Our somewhat unexpected finding was that developers preferred to work from the printed specification, separate from the standards source. When asked for a reason, most reported that resource constraints prevented them from writing code and specifications at the same time; another factor was the satisfaction that comes from working independently. Most of the developers we spoke to were more than halfway through their development before they even considered reporting specification problems to the source organization. Although this speaks well for the overall quality of computer industry specifications, it also means that feedback from open source developers is not getting back to the specification's authors.
 1 aSiegel, Jon1 aSoley, Richard Mark  uhttp://timreview.ca/article/207