on 7/3/01 5:35 PM, "Jason van Zyl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All I was saying is that people making changes to help improve
> our 'lot of turbine land' often don't have as much time to kill as I do :-)
> Some mistakes will definitely be made. We'll figure it out.
>
Right, but in this case, changes were made to the build system after I had
made the changes to fix it. Those changes totally ignored the changes that I
had made and therefore broke the Scarab sandbox again. This is simply
because care was not taken to understand the changes that I had made in
order to allow Scarab to call the Turbine build*.xml files from a different
directory structure...
All I'm asking for is that people take into consideration that changes they
make affect other projects and that before you make a change you should have
an understanding of what you are changing and why. Not only does this help
reduce bugs, but it also makes for cleaner code.
This is an attitude that I see Geir take with Velocity and I encourage
everyone else to adopt it. He is very thorough about thinking about what he
is doing and the side effects of the change before he commits code.
I personally aspire to adopt that development attitude and kindly request
that others do so as well. It is in all of our benefit to do so.
-jon
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