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Project flow

Posted Sep 15, 2008 14:43 UTC (Mon) by etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr (guest, #38022)
In reply to: Project flow by man_ls
Parent article: Tightening the merge window rules

> The usual process starts with a blueprint, then goes through to
> analysis and development and finally testing

For my small projet, I have just coded so that I knew exactly what
I wanted to do. Then I rewritten most of the stuff nearly from scratch,
that is just keeping the lower layer functions and reorganising the
whole code.
The problem is that you have something working before the "rewrite",
but nobody else would understand it - and you cannot submit a patch
before the complete organisation, patch which would be huge moving stuff
around, renaming, factoring...
After the rewrite people complain that they have not been involved
in the design, but you just know they would have complained even more
before the reorganisation.
That is just life (of code)...

Etienne.


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