On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 05:59:33PM +0100, Michael Schmitt wrote: > John Levon wrote: > > >This is actually 99% of the work. I hope people are beginning to see > >what a massive task this actually is now ... just getting tables back up > >and running will probably take *weeks* (sadly, I don't think I'm > >exaggerating). > > And I also hope people are beginning to see that _every_ new feature and > _every_ code change introduces new bugs. That's why we should have a > feature freeze very soon.
I see that and I also see that I am the main source of new bugs right now. However, I think that most of the things will be easily fixable as soon as the core is in a stable condition. And I see this time approaching. We basically have a choice of making what we have now workable and create some fragile glue code (which should be better than we had before, but...) or tame that beast for good. I am opting for the latter right now as this minimizes total effort in the long run. Andre'