bazaar

1. Analogy of software development methodology. Software developed in
public according to normative FOSS praxis is said more like the
chaotic and more organic trading style of a bazaar than the
pristine top-down architecture of a cathedral created by visionary
engineers. The analogy is made in a 1999 book by Eric Raymond,
called The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Characteristics of bazaar style
development include releasing code early and often, treating users
as co-developers and making extensive use of internet for project
communications and interaction with code repositories. 2. A version
control system created by Canonical in 2005 for development of the
Ubuntu GNU/Linux distro and related tools.