Hi all, So, hopefully, we can get Factor 1.0 done this year. This was my goal in an unofficial (but no one objected to it yet) roadmap, to have Factor done by December 31. If this still seems reasonable, we need to make sure that the standard library is as good as we want it to be. Regardless of the possible inclusion of new vocab roots, it seems to me that just about every vocabulary should have (1) Documentation (2) Unit tests (3) Metadata. Maybe (4) Clean code should be added to that list, but it's less essential. Assembling this isn't a fun task, but I think we need an audit of extra/.
Proposal: Give every vocabulary in extra the tag "unaudited". The person who wrote that vocab will have the responsibility of adding appropriate documentation, unit tests and metadata within 2 months. If that person doesn't provide those things, then we'll divide up the remaining vocabs among people who volunteer to audit the remaining ones within a month or so. Good Samaritans can start auditing others' libraries earlier, though. If we start now on a schedule that's something like this, then everything can be audited by September. I call this an "audit" because I think there are lots of vocabs that people (or at least me) have written, failed to write appropriate tests and docs, and then just forgotten about. I think the audit just has to be of extra/ because core/ seems to be mostly appropriately documented, tested and tagged at this point. I think it's appropriate to do something like now, even though not all of the language features are done, because the process of updating code for the language features should go smoothly and orthogonally to this, and users haven't been expected to update their own code for most language features. (Incidentally, the audit might also include changing code to use new-slots and no delegation, if those aren't already done by that time.) What do you think of this idea? Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
