Am 01.08.2004 um 22:52 schrieb lex@cc.gatech.edu:
To show what I am talking about, let me give you a quick story. I received an email a couple of days ago asking that I resubmit a FIX and this time include a test case. Actually, the post did include a test case; it simply wasn't in SUnit form. When I tried to write one, I noticed that the code was no longer broken! It turns out that someone else had fixed it, this time with a SUnit test, and had their fix included.
What do we see from this example?
You can clearly see that I did too much harvesting last week. It was no example of burocracy, just my fault.
My favorite direction to go in would be to put reasonable people in charge of various parts of Squeak, as we have already begun to do so. And if some part of Squeak is too obscure for anyone to volunteer as the maintainer of it, we shouldn't lose too much sleep that it is not being maintained. Once maintainers are in place, we can trust those guys to do the right thing most of the time and not subject them to lots of cross examination on every little change.
I'm completely with you on this. We need categories in BFAV to sort stuff acording to which part of the sytem they are meant for, an we need people take responsibility for parts of the system.
Marcus