Re: Where now?

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From: Steve Purkis
Subject: Re: Where now?
Date: 19:31 on 22 Oct 2003
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003, at 04:04  pm, Mark Fowler wrote:

> Okay, so the question is, where are we heading now?

Good question.  I did post a short-term plan last week which I'll get 
started on in my copious amounts of spare time, but AFAIK there are no 
plans further than that.  Not for lack of ideas, mind you... I've 
submitted quite a few patches in the past, and I know Piers has a whole 
stack of them tucked away somewhere.  But as far as I'm concerned Piers 
is still the lead developer on this project - I've got the go-ahead to 
do maintenance, but aside from that I think we need some feedback from 
Piers before we can decide which way to go.


> I can't really do much on Pixie development, it being a little over my
> head atm, but what I'd really like to do is start adding comments to 
> the
> Pixie source code, and maybe working on the documentation.
>
> Does this sound like a good idea?  What's the best way for me to go 
> about
> this.  Obviously, I'd really like someone to be checking my working to
> make sure my comments aren't completely wrong.

I think adding some Pod is a good idea, but I'd go easy on the comments 
- I know for a fact James prefers self-documenting code, and I assume 
Piers does too as his code is quite readable.  Maybe some design docs 
would be a better idea?  I'm more than happy to go over things with 
you, time permitting.  But bear in mind I'm still learning too.

-Steve

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