On 09/16/15 20:09, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> On Wed 2015-09-16 16:21:12 -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> While your point is in general valid, I suggest that if you KNOW
>> something is in flux and do not know yet what its final form will be, it
>> is prudent to wait until you know what it's going to look like before
>> you rewrite code against it.  Rewriting the same body of code twice
>> doubles the number of opportunities to introduce bugs.
> 
> The Enigmail team is part of these discussions, and the discussions are
> not active enough.  Enigmail has an opportunity to stake out space with
> reasonable choices.  "What its final form will be" will depend on the
> information that feeds into the discussion, including information
> derived from actual implementers working on improving their actual
> software with an eye toward vocab consistency and UI/UX improvements :)
> 
> Without these kind of real-world contributions, the discussion won't
> reach nearly as fruitful a conclusion (if indeed it ever concludes --
> hopefully the discussion will be ongoing as more improvements are
> found).

By all means discuss, contribute and suggest.  :)  All I'm saying is
that writing code against other code that you know is about to change is
usually a bad plan until you know what it's changing to.


-- 
  Phil Stracchino
  Babylon Communications
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  Landline: 603.293.8485

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