[Panel-devel] kicker is a mess

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 03 October 2005 08:24, Wade Olson wrote:
> To me, UML diagrams allow for both better introductions to new
> participants, as well as helps more experienced people to refine the
> code.  

high level code documentation is excellent for helping people do design 
recovery (which happens when learning a new code base as well as hunting for 
design issues 6 months after having written something yourself ;). i would 
welcome an ongoing documentation of plasma as it takes shape.

on the flip side, i find uml nearly useless for describing new design concepts 
as it says everything about structure to me and almost nothing about the 
why's and wherefore's implied by the design. which is to say: what the person 
creating that design was thinking at the time.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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