I concur that there
should be a requirements document and the proposals should address the
requirements.
And for Christof, I would add that I view the proposals as
more of a distributed brainstorming session, not a fractioning of the Ant
community. It's a healthy thing.
jim
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[Proposal] AntFarm
How about the
good old fashioned way:
1. A requirements specification that
spells
out WHAT the software must do,
without
ANY indication of how it should be done.
2.
A design document that specifies HOW the
requirements will
be met via a proposed
implementation.
I suspect the
reason we have so many proposals
in the form of code is that code is fun to
write.
Specifications and design documents are NOT fun
to write. But, they
are a better way communicate
a software effort than trying to compare
multiple
proposals in the form of different codebases.
Christoph
Wilhelms wrote:
>
> Sorry, but I have to give a short statement
from the view of an Ant user and
> "extender"!
>
> I think it
is very simple what we all want and what we dont want. Please
> correct me
if I am wrong!
>
> We want:
>
> * Just ONE
Ant!
> * A reliable running, fast, innovative Ant (just like Ant 1.2 is
now)
> * An Ant beeing supported, discussed and improved (just like it has
been up
> to now)
> * Many Ant-Developers that work TOGETHER (on the
current and future
> versions)
> * A clear line! We want to see in
wich direction Ant is going! This is
>
mandatory
> for everyone who wants to EXTEND core ant
like ANTIDOTE or VAJ-Integration
>
or
> JBuilder-Integration etc.
>
> We don't
want:
>
> * Competetive Ant-Developers ( ;-) )
> * Many
different Ants (Myrmidons, Antfarms, Anteaters, etc.) parallel! Don't
>
misunderstand
> me: the proposals are on one hand good
for improving Ant - on the other
> hand there
is
> NOBODY who can compare the proposals with each other
(lack of time). IMHO
> at the moment
> the
proposals INTERUPT Ant
development-process!
>
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