On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Russell Keith-Magee
<freakboy3...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm in full agreement that "Improving the admin UI" is certainly a
> good pre-proposal, and I'm sure there's plenty of tickets that could
> fill a SoC. My concern is that "move to using jQuery" isn't a good
> line item in a proposal without a community discussion or BDFL
> pronouncement that this is the right thing to do.
Yeah, and I think Zain perhaps opened up a can of worms by not clearly
stating that the use of jquery (or whatever) is basically required to
pull off something of this nature. I told him, and I'll repeat it,
that "refactor the admin javascript to use {framework}" is a worthless
task without it being part of some bigger task that needs the tools
said framework provides. So I'd view the "refactor to use framework"
part as being incidental to the "add cool features to the UI"; the
latter isn't possible without the former.
I don't think this needs a decision -- consensus, BDFL, or otherwise
-- right away, though; this is still a pre-proposal, and we don't know
that we'll accept it, and we don't know that we'll find a mentor, and
we don't know that the project will succeed. Indeed, there's a good
chance that the simple controversy here will keep Zain away from this
one; not everyone wants to step into this problem.
In the end we'll have to make a call one way or the other, and I'm
happy to be the bad guy and just make a declaration. But I'm going to
wait to do so until I actually see working code. Let's let the
decision be made by features so compelling we're willing to deal with
the bullshit.
Jacob
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