On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 01:43:23PM +0100, Hilmar Berger wrote: > > No. What he's saying is that it's better to *code* by one's > > non academically sound vision rather than not coding by a > > superb design plan. > I understand you don't like me telling you that we need a > different development process.
> First,my intention was not to tell you that you wont reach > v1.0 doing it your way. You probably will. It might take > some time, though. I just strongly believe that a) you could > save the time you already needed and will continue to need > for redesigning your code and I won't argue with that as I have no experience in it. > b) it will be easier to > communicate to others what you had in mind when coding and > how everything is thought to play together. That sounds fair. > Second, the decision is not "To code or not to code". It's > rather "To code with or without a planning phase". In my > eyes spending some hours/days in order to have a plan is not > wasted time. It's not but the time must be *spent*. Of course, unspent time isn't wasted either so I don't blame anyone. > It's time you can easily save in the coding phase. Only true if there's an "army" of coders to delegate the grunt work to. There isn't. GNUmed is a vertical type application. > And that is what I have seen and experienced. Aha, interesting! Maybe you can share concrete experience here ? > I guess that you are doing some > sort of design process for your own anyways and you have a > clear vision, too. Why, of course. > So what I was asking you was to write > your thoughts down (even in a not so superb manner) Read the Wiki and point out what's lacking. I am happy to fill the gaps. > and let others participate in the design process. I have nearly always solicited help on the design of tables and code on this very list. People have only moderately responded to it most times. > I said that I will write down some specs and I'm > determined to do so. I will probaly have some time at end of > December, so you can expect to see something written down at > the beginning of the next year. Excellent, thank you ! I am sincerely looking forward to that. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
