This might be a good time to bump the major version number? Per Inge Mathisen schrieb: > Hello devs, > > We all know that the current and past state of the Warzone codebase is > a rather sorry excuse for something. There are so many globals all > over the place, that it is almost impossible to separate out code for > proper unit testing or reuse. The code is buggy, and we do not have a > process in place to ensure that it gets better. I dare say that if the > only thing that keeps Warzone from sliding from bad to worse in terms > of bugs is hard work, there is no chance that we will not get to the > point of stability where we want to be. > > To try to keep the addition of new bugs less than the number of fixed > bugs, we added commit rules. I still think they are important, but I > can't say they have been a great success. > > I would like to suggest that we start refactoring the Warzone codebase > so that it can more easily be unit tested aggressively. That way we > can steadily add test upon test to ensure that the codebase gets > increasingly robust. In addition, it will help with code reuse between > different future applications that may want it (map editor, qwzm, > warzone studio, utilities, etc.). And we can clean up code while we're > at it. The plan I would suggest is to start moving code into a new > directory, lib/base/, where we put functions that can pass the > following criteria: > 1) can be relevant for more than one application, > 2) has *at least* one unit test, > 3) uses *no* globals, > 4) and follows the coding style guide. > > I would like to start porting the map loading code there. If you like > the idea. Then hopefully we could all pitch in and port the functions > you are more familiar with and soon we will have a new, shiny and > improved Warzone codebase that everyone loves working with. > > - Per > > _______________________________________________ > Warzone-dev mailing list > Warzone-dev@gna.org > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
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