On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Adam Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> We move files around all the time. If we're afraid to move files for >> these reasons, we'll be stuck with bad organizational choices we made >> in the distant past. WebKit's philosophy is to think of the future as >> large, so the future benefits of these sorts of changes often outweigh >> the transition costs. >> > > Sure. But the question is whether doing this re-org will benefit us in the > end or not. I don't think we can always assume any re-org is good. > Consider it this way: if the re-org doesn't benefit us, we shouldn't do it regardless of these reasons. If it does, these reasons should not stop us. Therefore, I don't think we need to spend a lot of time thinking about them -- it is enough to acknowledge that re-orgs have nonzero cost in general. PK
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