Would a high-level architecture diagram on the wiki help get new
developers up to speed?


Martin Ellison wrote:
> It is a design issue... when you say it will kill Cinelerra, do you
> mean she has such a monolithic design that no-one will work on her? a
> long-term developer will in time pick up a fair percentage of the code
> base, but to get developers in there in the first place, there needs
> to be problems of manageable size for them to work on, and in
> particular the amount of learning that they need to do of the existing
> codebase must be manageable. But is Cinelerra manageble in that state?
> Can she be put into that state?
>
> On 14/11/2007, *Z F* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>
>     --- Martin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>
>     > 1. Developers don't want to learn 100,000 lines of code before they
>     > contribute anything.
>
>     Please, forgive me, but exactly this type of philosophy will kill
>     Cinelerra.
>
>     This is a design isssue. Design of code should be such that it is not
>     necessary to learn huge amounts, but to contribute, one would most
>     likely
>     have to learn anyway... For this design problem to be solved there
>     should
>     be the "master" of the main development trunk and all
>     patches/contributions should conform to the requirements of the
>     project
>     which should be spelled-out. Good intentions are not enough. broken
>     patches should not be acceptable even though someone else could fix
>     them.
>
>     Well, this is my opinion. Unfortunatelly, I am at the stage of
>     reading design patterns books and learning how to use them...
>
>     I would suggest that the leaders of the project get together and set
>     the
>     rules and ask everybody to follow them :)
>
>     ZF
>
>
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