[Scons-dev] Duplicate issue policy

[William Blevins]

>
> Knowing that you have only 15 minutes, you'd start to think differently.
> First,
> you'd try grepping on "class Copy" and "def Copy", then trying to choose
> another
> entrypoint, like knowing that it is somehow injected into Environment,
> start with API docs for Environment.


It would be nice if your argument didn't start with, you are idiot, but I
understand your point.

 At the very end of your 15 minutes you start to think
> "what can I do know so that the next person who approaches this issue would
> not have to start from scratch and get to the same position as I am?"


Yeah, documentation is good.  Maybe intuitive design is a bigger concern.
 Perhaps we should consider naming files in a more self-documenting type of
way.  Cross module dependencies, especially circular ones, make it harder.

-William


On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:02 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 5:22 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Do you mean 15min looking per day working on an issue?
>
> Exactly. Personally, you can spend as much time as you can, but for
> everybody
> else don't assume that they have more than 15 minutes and you'll get the
> answer
> why things are not moving, not fixed etc.
>
> > I'm not sure if I could even find the source code that needed to be
> changed
> > in 15min.  Trying to find the Copy function was like a needle in a
> haystack;
> > try grep on "copy".
>
> Knowing that you have only 15 minutes, you'd start to think differently.
> First,
> you'd try grepping on "class Copy" and "def Copy", then trying to choose
> another
> entrypoint, like knowing that it is somehow injected into Environment,
> start with
> API docs for Environment. At the very end of your 15 minutes you start to
> think
> "what can I do know so that the next person who approaches this issue would
> not have to start from scratch and get to the same position as I am?"
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