Re: gEDA-user: Random thoughts on the future interface of PCB

[Anthony Blake <a@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Armin Faltl <armin.faltl@xxxxxx> wrote:
> There are blackboards for freelance engineers, to make a defined feature in
> opensource software. This seems a good model of payment to me. The problem
> to me in our case is atm:
> - the writer of a certain feature is not required to understand enough of
> the app,
>  to avoid new bugs in other parts
> - the writer is not required to run extensive regression tests after the
> change
>  and provide tests for his feature as well
> - there is noone fully coordinating the work of contributors and
> saveguarding
>  the internal interfaces
>
> Since we do not have the documentation Bob requests, it's practically
> impossible,
> to meet above standards and without above quality measure in place I'm
> unwilling
> to pay any money.
>
> Btw., fixing bugs in a well designed, well documented, cleanly written
> application
> is a lot more fun than in <insert_decription_of_choice> and orders of
> magnitude faster.
> That's why I suggested to personally throw out BS like '#define END_LOOP }}'
> and
> all it entails. Since this was not welcomed, I decided to not try and dive
> into
> the code any further.

Yes, if you were having difficulty with the END_LOOP macro, I can
understand why you didn't venture any deeper into the code.

Best wishes,
Anthony


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