I saw this on Twitter and feel compelled to share this here. Sorry, not a cute cat pictures but the "Development Ideology" of a completely unrelated project.
From https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/blob/master/contributing.md Development Ideology Truths which we believe to be self-evident: - The answer is not more options. If you feel compelled to add a preference that's exposed to the user, it's very possible you've made a wrong turn somewhere. - The user doesn't know what a key is. We need to minimize the points at which a user is exposed to this sort of terminology as extremely as possible. - There are no power users. The idea that some users "understand" concepts better than others has proven to be, for the most part, false. If anything, "power users" are more dangerous than the rest, and we should avoid exposing dangerous functionality to them. - If it's "like PGP," it's wrong. PGP is our spirit guide for what not to do. - It's an asynchronous world. Be wary of anything that is anti-asynchronous: ACKs, protocol confirmations, or any protocol-level "advisory" message. - There is no such thing as time. Protocol ideas that require synchronized clocks are doomed to failure. Now admittedly, some of these don't apply to us. But the first one I think we really need to take to hard. We have way too many options already and we keep adding more. And we keep adding them because of our believe in power users. And we make Subsurface harder and harder to use for normal people because we try to cater to those alleged power users. Number two is also important. Just replace "key" with "git" when it comes to our cloud storage. And I'm sure there are some other issues where we should apply that same principle. As far as our UI is concerned, I'd like to rephrase number 4. "If it's like Diving Log then it is wrong. Diving Log is our spirit guide for what not to do" :-) /D _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
