[CREATE] LGM11 panel proposal: attracting new devs
a.l.e
ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Sun Feb 20 10:20:38 PST 2011
salut louis
> > One hopes that it can progress in tandem with the code, by
> > necessity a bit behind cutting-edge features
>
>
> Actually, shouldn't that be the way around? Documenting is thinking.
> We can look at this from two ends. Case #1 The program exists and it
> is (partially) or (not well) documented, hence the necessity to
> explain afterwards — and this comes naturally, yes, behind. Case #2
> We can think of a more integrated way of doing things where any idea
> or feature or enhancement that makes it into the application is first
> well-thought of, defined, described, thus truly documented before it
> is actually coded.
this is exactly what i thought while reading greg's words :-)
not easy to do, but an idea worth to be seriously considered!
ciao
a.l.e
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