Thanks to all of you who cared enough about the project to comment. I'll start doing some docs after the tax season and then just put the code out there and see what happens...
Milton
----- Original Message ---- From: John Campbell <john.campbell.home@...> To: littlecyberwars@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 7:01:45 AM Subject: Re: [littlecyberwars] Re: Open Sourcing LCW
Have to agree with your initial statements and rebuttal Dale. And no, I don't work for Microsoft...
Having released my own bit of open source code I know all about the refactoring trap. There will always be one bit of code or another that you want to rewrite so that it is more clear or more efficient. There are also those little embarrassing items like your first attempt at doing something that just looks awful now that you know better ways of accomplishing the same goal. In my case I have two methods that do nearly identical processes with some small tweaks. I started going about refactoring them and two days later I still wasn't done. At that point I had to look at the time I was putting into it Vs. the amount of good the refactoring would bring. In the end I decided to scrap it and put it down as something to revisit later since it was taking too much time and didn't really make much of a difference to the program as a whole.
My advice to you Milton is that if you are going to do Open Source, just publish the code and let people start picking it apart. What you may find is that no one really cares about the areas you thought for sure they would be looking at and would require lots of documentation. If someone really wants to know about an area, they'll ask about it and when they do that is where you focus your energy.
> > If you wait until your happy with how the code looks before you > > publish, you'll never get there. You'll spend so much time on > > refactoring and cleanup, producing no new features (although > > possibly fixing some bugs), you'll likely to get discouraged with > > the effort. > > You must work for Microsoft.
Is that supposed to be an insult?
> After, all, we the world doesn't need reliable, maintainable code - > just lots of new releases, one right after another, which often > introduce as many new bugs as they fix.
Is that sarcasm or a political statement?
I'm not really sure what your point is. Is it that the documentation that I recommended doesn't lead to reliable and maintainable code? Do you think that ONE person trying to refactor code until they are happy
with the result is more EFFICIENT than having multiple people work towards the same, documented goal?
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