DIB clarification
Austin English
austinenglish at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 00:07:57 CDT 2010
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 7:00 PM, James McKenzie
<jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> One additional note: We should, as a project, not accept 'broken' code. I
> work with a real-time project and get paid for this that soon will have this
> policy in effect. No broken code, it is way to hard to go back and fix it
> later. This is one thing I like AJ for. The DIB engine is his one
> execption in that he wants it fully implemented and all in one piece.
>
> Also, Max's code has shown up in another 'for pay' project and where
> implementation was done, works. Where implementation is not complete, it is
> seriously broken. The problem is where it works and does not work is not
> cleanly defined. Lots of 'surprises' and 'gotchas'.
>
> Anyway, Jeff, please look at Max's code and then ask AJ for specific
> guidance on the how to work on this. This is a MAJOR part of the project
> that needs to be implemented. Don't feel insulted when you get reject after
> reject from AJ. As specific questions, and he does give answers. If he
> states "it's broken" he wants you to figure it out and the brokenness is
> very obvious. Yes, I've had patches rejected by him and that is all he
> said. I figured out the brokenness and fixed it. I've had to back off the
> patch as it used code that was rejected and now I know why.
James, I hate to be blunt, but you've been repeatedly told to stop
giving advice while implying that you are a senior wine developer with
lots of experience on the project. I've seen several (potential) new
contributors take your advice, submit patches based on it, then have
to rework a lot of it based on faulty advice.
Lots of people on wine-devel aren't wine developers, or contribute
infrequently, but still give good advice, based on what they know and
their experience. However, giving authoritative answers when you lack
that authority/experience is damaging not only to those contributors,
but to wine as a whole.
I think http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2010-July/085495.html
sums it up very nicely.
/rant
--
-Austin
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