Hi,
Just thought I'd repost this from Ben Sussman-Collins blog. I'd read it when
it was posted a while back, but I think it's perhaps relevant still, and
explains why I tend to do small patches/branches rather than large ones:
"""One of the main community “anti-patterns” we’ve talked about is people
writing “code bombs”. That is, what do you do when somebody shows up to an
open source project with a gigantic new feature that took months to write?
Who has the time to review thousands of lines of code? What if there was a
bad design decision made early in the process — does it even make sense to
point it out? Dropping code-bombs on communities is rarely good for the
project: the team is either forced to reject it outright, or accept it and
deal with a giant opaque blob that is hard to understand, change, or
maintain. It moves the project decidedly in one direction without much
discussion or consensus."""
-- http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=96
Michael.
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