That would be a good start. On 18/11/2007, Craig Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Would a high-level architecture diagram on the wiki help get new > developers up to speed? > > > Martin Ellison wrote: > > It is a design issue... when you say it will kill Cinelerra, do you > > mean she has such a monolithic design that no-one will work on her? a > > long-term developer will in time pick up a fair percentage of the code > > base, but to get developers in there in the first place, there needs > > to be problems of manageable size for them to work on, and in > > particular the amount of learning that they need to do of the existing > > codebase must be manageable. But is Cinelerra manageble in that state? > > Can she be put into that state? > > > > On 14/11/2007, *Z F* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > > > --- Martin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > > > 1. Developers don't want to learn 100,000 lines of code before > they > > > contribute anything. > > > > Please, forgive me, but exactly this type of philosophy will kill > > Cinelerra. > > > > This is a design isssue. Design of code should be such that it is > not > > necessary to learn huge amounts, but to contribute, one would most > > likely > > have to learn anyway... For this design problem to be solved there > > should > > be the "master" of the main development trunk and all > > patches/contributions should conform to the requirements of the > > project > > which should be spelled-out. Good intentions are not enough. broken > > patches should not be acceptable even though someone else could fix > > them. > > > > Well, this is my opinion. Unfortunatelly, I am at the stage of > > reading design patterns books and learning how to use them... > > > > I would suggest that the leaders of the project get together and set > > the > > rules and ask everybody to follow them :) > > > > ZF > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. > > Make Yahoo! your homepage. > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cinelerra mailing list > > Cinelerra@skolelinux.no <mailto:Cinelerra@skolelinux.no> > > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Martin > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > > IT: http://methodsupport.com Personal: http://thereisnoend.org > > _______________________________________________ > Cinelerra mailing list > Cinelerra@skolelinux.no > https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra >
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