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> From: Roland Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi Oleg,
>
> > I am convinced it is important there are different and moreover at times
> > conflicting opinions. I am also convinced disagreements are healthy if
> > they lead to a compromise.
>
> In general, I agree. In this specific case...
> a) too many times (for my liking)
> b) it's always just the two of us
I don't know if this is much consolation, but I think (b) sort of follows from
only having 2 main developers, ones who fully understand scope (and hopefully
ramifications) of proposed approaches and changes. That is, I wouldn't expect
to have many disagreements having more participants. Also, with experienced
developers like you, I wouldn't really expect having 0 conflicts either. That
usually only happens with projects that have severe "groupthink" problems (just
my opinion).
I think that as stressful it is to have conflicts, in the end good design in my
experience does come as a combination from at least slightly differing opinions
and values from participants. Quite often when I look back within what my team
has done at work, I am happy that I didn't drive through all of my ideas --
quite often I see later on that where I had to compromise, I was wrong.
I understand that there are healthy and unhealthy conflicts, and that it's very
hard to know which is which at the time. But I am hoping that the ones related
to HttpComponents can be viewed as healthy ones when looked from more distance.
That is, getting through disagreements by resolving issues. Sometimes
arbitrarily choosing one way over the other is more important than trying to
figure out the best way ("perfect is the opponent of good").
Apologies if I sound like a counselor or feel-good therapist. But while I can
relate to stress, I really hope this important project can be completed, given
extensive amount of experience & good intuition on sane software development
you both seem to have.
Cheers,
-+ Tatu +-
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