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 > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. > Make Yahoo! your homepage. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > > > > > -- > Regards, > Martin > ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > IT: http://methodsupport.com Personal: http://thereisnoend.org _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
