"Michael K. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7/15/05, Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Michael K. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > On 7/15/05, Manoj Srivastava va, manoj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> What's with the recent push to get every little things written >> >> down into policy, so the developer no longer is required to have an >> >> ability to think, or exercise any judgement whatsoever? >> > >> > Welcome to the software industry in 2005. >> >> Yes, to rely on 1300 developers to all think of your cunning method of >> solving a problem clearly makes sense. After all, to *write down* a >> technique that solves the problem, and make it available to all of them >> would stilt their creativity, hinder their intellect, and prevent the >> development of a consistent style! > > I am having a hard time reading this as anything but a non sequitur.
Umm; it follows more from Manoj's comment than yours. > Personally, I prefer for a solution to be demonstrated to work, both > socially and technically, before it is enshrined in policy. Drafts > are, of course, welcome at any stage. "Rough consensus and running > code." YMMV. You scale an organisation, I understand, by removing the *need* for everyone in it to be a genius at everything it does. Hence the comment about the US army: "designed by genius to be run by sergeants". There does seem to be a lot of discussion on the debian groups about policy. If Debian is lucky, or well-managed, then it is the process you are describing. If it is unlucky, then it is a bunch of rule-lawyers having fun. > >> Sheesh, next you'll be arguing in favour of personal indentation styles! > > Well, yes -- as long as the indent / emacs-mode / vim-mode > incantations that reproduce them are well documented, preferably in a > magic comment at the end of each file. :-) Exactly: that and an indent script in the checkin routine remove any issue. See how that compares to policy, which is hopefully implemented in such a way as to be mechanically testable? cheers, Rich. > > Cheers, > - Michael > -- rich walker | Shadow Robot Company | [EMAIL PROTECTED] technical director 251 Liverpool Road | need a Hand? London N1 1LX | +UK 20 7700 2487 www.shadow.org.uk/products/newhand.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
