Hi,

I commented on the ticket before I saw your mail. I'll read it (the
mail) after diner.

Cheers

On 06/20/2011 05:10 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I should add that the documentation on the wiki client section was good. I am 
> guilty of looking at it too late after I had finished a lot of the work. 
> Xavier sent me this link but for some reason I didn't take a close look today 
> until I had mostly finished, whoops! That is entirely my fault. That info 
> really makes up for the lack of comments in the actual code, and it would 
> have made my life easier if I had seen it.
>
> Here is my commit for Issue #159:
>
> https://gitorious.org/~chr15m/cardstories/cardstories-mccormix/commit/20f4b676513a582fb3761318a18f2d3af14714a9
>
> I will speak to you again on Wednesday or Thursday. In the meantime I look 
> forward to Loic's feedback on the patch. I hope what I did was correct.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris.
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 04:53:06PM +0200, david blanchard wrote:
>   
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> thanks a lot for the mail.
>> Regarding the #159, the easiest for you once you're done with it is to  
>> pass it in the state "ready for review", so that Loic will know he needs  
>> to review it.
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback about the code ! I'm ccing the mailing list so  
>> that it's shared with the rest of the team and anyone can react on it.
>>
>> All the best
>> David
>>
>> On 06/20/2011 02:38 PM, Chris McCormick wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> Thanks for making contact. As per ticket #159, I have the methods (Loic 
>>> calls them "switches") for the two new anonymous versions of "invitation" 
>>> and "vote" written, and some placeholder HTML for that too. They seem to be 
>>> working in the browser according to the specification that Loic wrote for 
>>> me ("&anonymous=yes" in the query string). Now I am working on the unit 
>>> tests. Once that is done I will commit the code and send an email to Loic 
>>> for him to merge or give me feedback at his leisure. I hope that is what 
>>> you expect, let me know if there is something else I should be doing.
>>>
>>> I have some small feedback on the code itself which I would like to forward 
>>> to Loic and Xavier too. This is not meant as a criticism in any way, but 
>>> more of a factual observation. The quantity of comments in the front-end 
>>> code is very low:
>>>
>>> $ ohcount static/js/jquery.cardstories.js
>>> Examining 1 file(s)
>>>
>>>                            Ohloh Line Count Summary
>>>
>>> Language          Files       Code    Comment  Comment %      Blank      
>>> Total
>>> ----------------  -----  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  
>>> ---------
>>> javascript            1        774         37       4.6%         68        
>>> 879
>>> ----------------  -----  ---------  ---------  ---------  ---------  
>>> ---------
>>> Total                 1        774         37       4.6%         68        
>>> 879
>>>
>>> The quality of those comments is also such that they are written more as 
>>> small reminders to the original coder than they are as robust hints for 
>>> someone new to the code.
>>>
>>> This makes it quite difficult for someone new to the code like myself to 
>>> jump in and understand what is going on where. What would be immensely 
>>> helpful for someone just joining like me is if each method (or "switch") 
>>> could have a small comment saying what it's for, what it's context is, what 
>>> goes in and what is expected to come out. As it was I eventually worked it 
>>> out, I think, but it was more difficult than it needed to be.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Chris.
>>>
>>>       
> -------------------
> http://mccormick.cx
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