On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Hin-Tak Leung <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  1) what are
> ​ ​
> the still missing pieces, and future directions?

​  Out of the planned features nothing is missing, however there are still
minor bugs to be fixed.
  For the future, I believe the direction should be adding SPDX-2.0
support.​

2) what would a user or a developer
> interested in contributing/enhancing/adapting needs to know, and not yet
> obvious?

​ How all the classes fit together, The wiki and documentation shed light
but I think we need more.
Maybe a class diagram as well.​

> 3) what are the known problems?
>
​  Known issues can be found at
https://github.com/ah450/sdpx-tools-python/issues, of course further
testing would probably reveal more issues.​

FWIW, out of the 173 commits as of just now, minus 1 from somebody else
> for the initial set up, there were just over 30 commits with a messages
> longer than the signed-off line. (one of them don't have a signed-off line
> - not compulsory -
> just that it suggests you either work on two computers, one of which
> doesn't have
> the auto-signed-off set up, or that you are inserting it by hand.
> Inserting by hand is
> not efficient, that's all). That's somewhat improvement - around commit
> 120, there were about 14. One of the things that bothered me a lot
> were the "refactor xyz" commits, for all the reasons why short commit
> mesages are bad:
> (1) the message is all too brief about what actually changed, (2) some
> words should be said about "why" it is done, (3) and "how" - what is
> moving from where
> to where, (4) frequently, what the message says, is not what is actually
> done -
> there are additional changes mixed in, which is unrelated to
> "refactoring".


> I think (4) is the worst crime in general - when a commit description does
> not match
> what the code diff actually does.
>
​
 I have fixed some of the earlier history using rebase and pushed the
updates, I am still working on the rest.

​


-- 
Best Regards,
Ahmed
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