The correct way to devide ones time is: 25% coding 25% debugging 50% writing documentation
Unfortunately, most developers don't do that, they feel they have not enough time and spend 90% on coding, 10% of debugging and 0% on writing documentation for others. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:48:28AM -0400, Mike Monkowski wrote: > Philippe (Merov) Bossut wrote: > > The objective of Snowglobe was different, it was to establish a > > project where LL and a community of interested devs would engage and > > collaborate on some projects. Those projects are chosen among the deep > > core structure of the viewer (so far: texture fetching for performance, > > plugin architecture) because this is where wide collaboration is the > > most fruitful. Those changes are tricky, require extensive testing (for > > which we are grateful) and benefit from having their code read and > > tweaked by a community of developers. http-texture got plenty of great > > fixes that way (the curl crasher fix comes to mind). > > I was actually disappointed that Snowglobe spent so much time putting in > texture fetching and media plugins without actually engaging the > community. A few developers took it upon themselves to figure out what > was being changed and they were able to contribute patches, and a few > more ran the code and reported bugs, but these two features were mainly > Merov's patches. The rest of us never understood the implementation > details, never understood how the processing flow changed, and just > submitted other patches that we were interested in. > > Don't get me wrong. I'm not complaining. I was happy to get patches > accepted. I just think the core projects could benefit from more > communication. I had suggested code reviews (or maybe overviews is a > better word) a while back, but was shot down. Anybody have any other > suggestions? > > Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges -- Carlo Wood <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
