Hello Taher, Taher Alkhateeb <slidingfilame...@gmail.com> writes:
> I can sense frustration from Mathieu regarding getting things moving > forward. You are correct. > I would just like to note that it's really not _that_ bad! You've > already gotten a lot of commits rolling into the code base (which is > fantastic) and you didn't get objections on most of them. In fact many > commits that you made were just fine, including things you did to the > core components and gradle scripts and whatnot. Yes I am glad about that. However such achievement has been possible only because I chosed to move fast for changes I considered as implicit implementation details. Apparently such practice do not follow the recommended guidelines which require a code change proposal to be slowly reviewed first even for trivial stuff because we can never know if it might break user code or not. > So I want to encourage you to trust that things would work themselves > out, and there is no need to be frustrated. Take a deep breath and > just consider more of a long-term initiative than a short term one. > Doing the jar architecture is not the only thing that can be improved. > There is a whole heap of areas in the framework that can be improved. > For example REST (which you worked on partially if I'm not mistaken). The global goal is not just to improve various areas for the sake of improving them. The objective is to end up with a piece of software that is useable, extensible and works reliably. I tried my best to implement the REST stuff (and Artemiy after me) without going as far as I intended because I faced the immense complexity of ‘RequestHandler#doRequest’ which involves complex mechanisms like “override view URI”, ad-hoc redirection, messy error handling, HTTP query parameter passed in the path with a ‘~’ prefix which are used in templated links inside Freemarker code... all that paired with the unbearable complexity of the screen DSL to implement a JSON view handler... Clearly I am not convinced that following that approach will eventually turn into something useable and reliable in the long run. Thank you anyway Taher for trying to find something positive within a failure. :-) -- Mathieu Lirzin GPG: F2A3 8D7E EB2B 6640 5761 070D 0ADE E100 9460 4D37
