Hi,
Last year I fought the above branch for many months seeking to make it
something that a) worked b) was usable.
I have decided, regretfully, to cease spending any of my time on it.
Rationale:
* In practical terms it was sucking up far too much of my time, since the
code was non-idiomatic for either python or Kamaelia.
* It didn't work, and still largely doesn't work.
* It provided no way of testing the system as a whole, nor in part.
* It was not documented, or where documentation was included it was either
unclear, patchy or wrong. (no docs are better than broken docs)
* The approach taken to inclusion of a seperately library appeared to be
copy and paste, rather than wrap and use. Thereby making the code
significantly more fragile. This goes rather heavily against Kamaelia's
approach of modularity.
* The coding style is extremely monolithic, rather than modular. Kamaelia
systems are generally testable in small fragments.
Crucially though:
* The original developer dumped the code and ignored it. (This isn't
necessarily a problem for code that is documented and works, if the
code is useful enough - see above on this point).
* The original branch proposer did not assist in fixing the code, nor
documenting it.
* It is largely code for its own sake - it has no user & no potential user.
For these reasons I'm rejecting the branch.
I should have done this 4 months ago when I actually stopped working on
fighting this branch, but like many people I don't like giving up on something.
Also, as many people know, much of my development of Kamaelia itself as a
project is now done in my own time, so the time I have to fight LARGE branches
which don't work, aren't documented, aren't maintained, and don't have a
developer taking ownership of their own code, is minimal.
As a result, I've decided that the potential benefits of working with this code
to get it working are outweight by the time cost incurred (to me, personally)
of doing so.
I'm sorry to the original developer who will read this and probably be
disappointed, but if you don't care enough to make your code work
and use it, I don't have to either.
Regards,
Michael.
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