Paul, I want to respond to this.  I agree with your comment.  This was my
express intent in most of the fixes I've sent in.  Being new to the code,
and not a committer, and not fully understanding the big picture, I wanted
to fix problems in Jetspeed with the least impact.  I think that in the
process, discussions about better API structuring within Jetspeed have
commenced.

I'd rather re-write and re-structure to get the thing right.  In the long
run, and even in the medium run, I have found this to be the best approach.
But there are definitely times and circumstances where a quick and specific
fix makes the product better, now.  It may not fix the architecture problem
surfaced, but it makes it no worse.

Speaking of which, the sorting fix I proposed for the BasePortletSet is one
of these cases.  Jetspeed is just wrong now, and this will fix it without
making the architecture any worse than it is.  It's a quick fix that will
hold while we better understand and structure the bigger issues.

- Glenn

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:03 PM
> To: Jetspeed Developers List
> Subject: Re: Nominate Glenn Golden to Jetspeed Committer
> 
> 
> +0 - Although I like the patches I have seen, in some cases 
> the patches
> do not address the root problem, they just fix the results.
> 
> Paul Spencer

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