Hi all,

I wonder if Seaside would not be a good place to try something out. It would seem that if there was a good way to manage the comment workflow it would be very useful to try it out here.

Thoughts?

Ron

-----Original Message----- From: stephane ducasse

This is not easy for me to say that because I appreciate the work of Avi, Lukas and Philippe. But I'm sorry to say that but seaside sucks! Not because of the code or the concepts. But because there is really not enough comments. Really! It is really difficult to understand a simple method is doing and if it makes sense to specialize it.

This is TERRIBLE since I think that I'm a good programmer but seaside code prevents me to be fully efficient. I have to guess try and error and guess again. I have to ask stupid questions to the mailing-list while I would prefer to use it for interesting questions. I think that seaside goes even against the philosophy of Smalltalk (a system that someone alone can understand) because this total lacks of comments is TRAPPING me. I cannot use my skills full speed. Thanks what a great feeling. pleaseeeeeee do not tell me to read the code or to use senders! This is really the worse answer I can get. I always hated this kind of answer on smalltalk forums.

(Please do not ask me what I'm doing to improve the situation because people knows what I did for seaside and Smalltalk already.)

I think that as a community we should do something especially since we have monticello and comments could be easily merged.

I pushed a lot seaside and I'm trying to push it again further but come on we should WAKE UP! I would really like that people with knowledge helps improving the situation.

So if you think that seaside is cool and it is worth more, spend 30 min of your precious time and add comments, help lukas and the other to make Seaside really a habitable piece of code.

Comments are for people that do not know or remember. So if you really want to make the community grow you know what you should do. But may be it is better that seaside stays a cool program for a nice and private club after all.

Stef

PS: I should say that filelibrary is a good start at documenting a functionality. May be adding method comments would help there too.

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