Hey all, Thanks for the vote of confidence. However, I don't think any change in my status makes sense for the time being.
I'm not really sure what this nomination is for so I can't see how it's going to make my work more efficient or my contributions more effective. I don't yet feel that I have a *basic* understanding of the library, so I don't feel good yet about either pronouncing myself on architectural decisions or on creating patches for review and commit. This search for a basic understanding is what's driving my documentation effort---I want to know what is really happening when a user opens a shapefile for display. This is close to equivalent to wanting to know, when a simple shapefile is being displayed, what are the computational structures being used at that instant. I hope to evolve to understand this eventually but don't think I am there yet. Note that I do feel I can discuss naming. Jody recently suggested that new users don't read the javadocs but rely on class and method names to guess at what the code does. When I understand the code then I can have strong, and possibly useful, opinions on naming. :-) Martin, thanks for the suggestion of getting direct svn access. The main reason for me *not* to do this, is to keep working from an SDK rather than from an SVN checkout of the code. I'm trying to experience things from the 'user' perspective. Eventually, perhaps I should figure out a way to generate patches in Eclipse from modifying the SDK but figuring that out will take work and is not a priority. Sorry to all for my delay in answering---I've been helping a friend move and drive across the country. --adrian On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 11:34 +0200, Jody Garnett wrote: > One of the people we miss around here is our friend Reuben, he both > wrote some docs, helped on the user list and reminded developers when > what they were writing was horrible and could not be explained to others. > > It seems to be that Adrian has been playing that role in several email > threads lately, and has a marked concern for usability/sanity etc. > > I would like to nominate him to do what he is doing, and give him the > big old veto stick a module maintainer carries. > Adrian I will continue to watch the developers guide, but I would like > to give you the authority to kill all those olds snipits that trouble users. > > So there is my nomination, is there a second. > > Aside: If I keep holding the veto stick I am going just start deleting > pages :-) You may be kinder then me. > Jody > _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
