On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:37 AM, Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It seems as if someone who comes along and says "I'm an experienced Java > programmer, and want to improve JOSM in this way" is less trusted and > accepted than someone who comes along and says "I know nothing about > programming at all, and want to improve JOSM in this way." That seems > backwards. > I think what Frederik has pointed out is that people who tend to talk about refactoring don't talk about it as a means to an end, but take it for granted as something that should be done regardless of anything else. There are other people who don't worry about the code architecture and just submit patches for bugs or features, and this is more relevant and useful to Frederik currently. I believe he's already mentioned that if someone was contributing useful patches, and wanted to do some refactoring as part of their work, he wouldn't be opposed to it. The problem lies in people who have never done any JOSM development saying that the first thing they'd like to do is refactor the whole codebase. I can see why that would be annoying and unwanted. -Ted _______________________________________________ josm-dev mailing list josm-dev@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/josm-dev
