> > I find it a bit disappointing that you reject one thing because you seem to > > dislike something else, and I'm getting a bit frustrated here, because there > > is no cache project, I just want to make a simple, mimimal change to make > > things better (and in my view good enough), but I'll have to do a complete > > redesign in stead, and review any cache extension too.. > > I also find it a worrying that it seems like no code in MMBase is good enough > and that everything must be totally redesigned, and that there is no room for > incremental improvements. In my view this adds strongly to the instability of > the code as with redesigns new side effects and bugs are introduced instead > of fixing and improving current code. I do agree that obviously bad code > (like the scan 'parsing' engine) are up for redesign, but not that every small > change gets blown up into a full-size project.
Hi Rico, lots of changes are currently made, mainly by Pierrere and Michiel. Aldo they have gained merits in the past, I am bit bit worried that they have to much influence over the code. I looks like the post on the mailing list are only formalities. For example I posted about the PageContext stuff long before the vote was passed . Should I have vetoed to prevent this from happening? No , I don't think so, still most of my post are in the form "yes, and how about", but that does not seam to help. And I you like me are a bit worried , sorry but there ain't much you can do I might not be the person who everybody should listen to but I have the feeling that everybody has been working very hard (storage,editwizard(how hard),taglib,fuctions) but that we could do much better if there was a bit more thinking and evaluating in the process. Even a project manager would have seen that the editwizards was a waste of time. But if michiel want's to improve the code bit by bit I have no problem what so ever, i am even very very happy (but don't ask me what I think of it if you only want positive feedback). We don't need more directions , we need better directions. I am not happy at all about the way code is moved to applications, it looks almost random and I have posted enough on the subject (just get enlightened and read the ideas about maven). And that is even worse than Michiel's hacks because the cleaning project is a project, we so just can' t stop it.( master gomez is the master ) I haven't heard much from you lately. Don't you want to say for example that in mmbase 0.9 the builder configuration was in the packages and that it was moved to a config directory[because...], and now some people think again that dtd's and configuration belong in the the packages? Don't you care about the direction als long as the steps are small? What's you feeling we should be doing? How would you like to See the development process going?
