KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets/tasks (silent)

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Friday 01 February 2008, Sebastian Sauer wrote:
> The reason why I cc-mailed panel-devel at kde.org on commit r769216 was btw
> for review-purpose and it was working very well and rather fast. The code
> was in the repositry and ppl could try it out without first
> downloading+applying a patch + I even got a hint that this triggers another
> bug what in turn lead me to fix the other bug.

i understand where you are coming from. however, this is not how we work 
together on this code base. your commits in this case have become 
increasingly wrong, revision by revision. you're not actually working faster, 
you're just working wronger (ok, that's not a word). please get these things 
peer reviewed, because right now there's now a small mess to sort out that 
should never have gone in this way.

> That all was done in rather short time and if I compare that with how some
> commercial development happens (review, documentation, bunches of ppl
> involved, lot of "wait-time" till you are able to continue to work on
> something and probably you even can't let the solution grow in svn but need
> to have a perfect solution before beeing able to ask for review, etc.) then
> it's not only faster but also more direct.

evidently you've missed how quickly plasma has been developing, then. because 
it goes quickly. most importantly, it usually goes quickly in good directions 
rather than randomly this way or that.

you may have gotten quicker to where *you* wanted it to go, but your patches 
in this stream have been full of incorrect changes that now other people will 
have to go through and fix or at the very least point out the issues to you 
so that you can fix them. 

honestly, i'm just going to go through and fix the problems. so you've ended 
up wasting other people's time in a way that was completely unnavoidable.

so regardless of what you personally feel, believe or think about this process 
as a whole ... stop barreling ahead and start working with the others working 
on plasma. there are several of us, and if we would like that to continue 
it's pretty important that we:

* ensure the code base does not become a piss pile of hacks that make it 
unpleasant to hack on and difficult to maintain (your patches here fail in 
this way)

* coordinate our efforts so we don't duplicate efforts and annoy each other 
(ruphy's time has been wasted here)

* try to remember that this isn't your own personal project but that of a 
group

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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