> I quite like the idea of proposals being executable
tests, in fact. I
> wonder whether perhaps we could manage some of the
meta-data and
> high-level overview in the PSC still; just more general
points about the
> rationale, the problem and so on, so that we had a bit
more visibility
> of what's going on and what state it's in. The list
is great for things
> being dicussed right now, but less good for piecing
together the state
> of discussion and progress (which may be hard to glean
from hard code or
> even tests, too, unless you're careful) a few months
down the line.
>
> Note the a PSC proposal can link to an svn branch where
development
> happens, so if the text there is fairly short (and at a
high enough
> level for regular people to figure out what's going
on, in general) it
> can defer to the text for all specifics.
maybe the simplest possible thing for infrastructure stuff
is having
some sort of direct link from the doctest in the project
description,
or a convention of where to put the proposal/doctest.
> Put it differently: I find the text of your doctest at
the moment a bit
> confusing for getting the bigger picture, and I'm sure
I'm not the only
> one. Also, with *just* a doctest in svn, we'd have to
manage the process
> of what proposals are intended for what releases and
what state they're
> in by memory and emails back and forth.
and that's a trac or PSC problem, something a bit further
down the line.
These are the problems the
> PSC/PLIP infrastructure solve for Plone and tons of
other products. I
> think they're orthogonal to describing low-level
changes in terms of a
> doctest, though (which I think it's a bloody great
idea).
>
right...this in no way is a substitute to roadmaps and other
higher
level project management. my main observation was that I
usually follow
a pattern with this list: I describe what I think ought to
be done,
people ask for clarification, I write some pseudo code to
explain that
could very well be the api for a simple implementation.
-w
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