[ClearCase_guy]

But in open source projects, work moves at the speed of the fastest member of the team, and adding more hands speeds things up rather than slowing them down, Devanbu said.

That's a rosy way of looking at it.

[Knitebane]

That's a rosy way of looking at it.

That's a well established axiom in computer software engineering. After all, if it takes one woman nine months to have a baby, how long does it take five women to have a baby?

Adding more resources means getting them all up to speed and teaching them how to integrate their work.