[Zope-Coders] how are we doing?
Martijn Faassen
faassen@vet.uu.nl
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:12:13 +0100
seb bacon wrote:
> There is definitely some impedence to committing:
>
> - being unfamiliar with the setup, I tend to triple-check everything;
> therefore even small changes take a while
Same here; yesterday figuring out the whole merging branches issue
for ParsedXML and checking everything, running tests, trying it
with Python 2.1 and Python 1.5.2 ate up a lot of time.
> - I'm nervous about checking in even tiny bugs without passing them
> by someone else
This dragged me down a bit too; I had a ask a few times before busy
folks gave me the aye.
> - I spent about an hour doing some STX changes, only to find Andreas
> was doing the exact same changes and committed them first!
At least I don't have this problem with ParsedXML; I'm the only
one hacking on it currently -- I've been trying to draw others
in but so far no luck. :)
> These factors add up to me feeling like I really need to set aside a
> a large portion of a day even to do a small fix, at the moment.
Same here, though I'm slowly growing more confident. It helps that
I really *need* a good ParsedXML for several projects..
[snip]
> The nervous / unfamiliar thing will go over time. An important
> question: is it good or bad to be extremely cautious? Would it
> perhaps be better to have more mistakes but a higher turnaround of
> fixes? Would you guys like to see more fixes happening unilaterally?
These are good questions which I was wondering about as well.
Regards,
Martijn