Hello all,
Bruce and Marek wrote:
> > [...] Let me start with the cons ;-)
> >
> > * you could possibly destroy other people's work
> > * the repository could become a mess if too many people are working there
> > * you can get the latest developments via the Web, too
> > * you can post your contribution on this mailing list and one of the
> > developers includes it for you
>
> We want to avoid conflicts in code & API's, but we also want to avoid conflict
> in style & philosophy. I would very much like to contribute to the general
> tool, but I have a bias towards getting a more flexible platform for
> translation to XML, MathML (and, ideally, OpenMath). Also, IMHO (maybe not as
> humble as it should be), to get there, and even just to keep l2h maintainable,
> it would be good to see more modularization and cleanup in the code, and Perl5
> modernizations; which I'm willing to do, but...
>
> A lot of the changes I can envision wanting to make would be too obnoxious to
> pass thru any of the overworked official developers. And yet, some are also
> likely to be too extensive to make without some sort of reality check by the
> current folks. Such changes might not `destroy other people's work' in the
> literal sense, but may destroy the design & spirit of it.
>
> Another problem area is testing: since l2h maps so many different inputs to
> so many different outputs, and since (as I've seen) seemingly minor changes
> can have rather drastic side effects -- and many effects you only see `by
> eye'-- having a good test suite is very important! How do you do it Ross?
>
> So, I think I have some good things to offer, and would like to contribute, but
> I would like to see how I fit in, and how I should run ideas past people before
> committing a change (and how to thoroughly test them afterwards :>)
I feel that both you and Marek agree in common that too many developers may
conflict with each other.
This is true, but currently we don't have as many different developers, and
this aside I think the primary goal of development is to get a running
distribution. There is anough work to share until the next release.
I am happy to provide you with a CVS login.
Jens.
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