Dan Pascu wrote:
> On Monday 02 October 2006 18:37, Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
>>> -- documentation is a big plus.
>> again, can be provided incrementally
> 
> Experience shows that this almost never happens. Once someone gets his pet 
> code integrated, they never care to document it. They know how it works 
> and don't need documentation, so they don't bother.
> What is worse is that (in my experience) they don't even return to 
> maintain their code (in case it was something more than a bug fix) and 
> the original author is forced to fix and maintain their code later.
> 
> Currently the SQLObject documentation is scarce. There are so many things 
> you can only find out about if you read the source, and there are things 
> in the existing documentation that are no longer accurate and can be 
> misleading. And I haven't seen any incremental addition to them, but 
> while I read the code I discover new undocumented things added regularly.

I see.

Al this you've mentioned gives me the impression of a badly organized 
project.

Basicly this starts from the project resources.

I mean, trac is really a nice tool, especially for the python-domain.

And I think every python project should have this front-end to the SVN.

.

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