I've spend about a dozen hours looking through the source and ultimately decided if I was going to contribute I would want to work on a rewrite. There's obviously a reason Alcor thinks it has to be done and I agree. I got the sense that a lot of the code was unmanageable and the design was ad-hoc. It's such a great App and it works really well, but it's at a point where one person probably can't keep the entire project in mind. This is the signal that a refactoring would be beneficial.
Is anyone interested in being part of a "task force" to carry out the rewrite and design? I would like to participate but I think there is the necessity to draw on existing functionality so I think it's key that someone experienced with this codebase works on it too. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 17, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Rob McBroom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 15, 2011, at 9:06 AM, camresu wrote: > >> While we are on the topic of Apple I have seen a few posts on the Mac App >> store, it seems people are eager to embrace this from apple, yet it is brand >> new. > > I don't think Quicksilver would be accepted as it is. Also, I think the App > Store is a great way to get exposure to users, and while I welcome more > users, what we really need are developers right now. Well, maybe that's not > it either. I think we have many developers interested and aware of the > issues, but none of them have time to do anything about it. > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> >
