There's the #wiab channel registered at freenode. Feel free to join, though as it's been mentioned several times, we'd better use IRC just for fast-paced discussions, and later we have to reflect the conclussions back in the mailing list.
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Joseph Gentle <jose...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Bruno Gonzalez (aka stenyak) > <sten...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I agree with you on this. The other day I was about to add half a dozen > new > > settings to the config files (for the email-wave bot). I thought it would > > take 5 minutes max, something like adding lines like this: > > > > value = settingsManager.get(key); > > > > But after 20 minutes traversing the code, writing each variable many > times > > in different files, with different syntaxes (camel case, underscore > > separators, all-caps, and whatnot) throughout several code layers, I > still > > hadn't managed to reach the point of code where I actually wanted my bot > to > > use the damned settings. I'm all for future-proofing the design, but I > > think that's a bit ridiculous. I don't want to imagine the fun in > debugging > > federation and ot algorithms when they fail, if it's all written like > this. > > > > Ali and I half-joked about going on a killing spree to halve the amount > of > > code. I'm sure no practical functionality would be lost... :-) > > Well, they say that if you want to change more than 25% of something, > its often faster to just rewrite it. > > We should chat sometime about what we want to do with the wave in a > box code. There's lots of well meaning nontechnical people on this > list - and thats lovely. But us programmers should chat about what > code we actually want to write. I don't know about other people, but I > don't contribute to WIAB anymore because of the monstrosity it has > become. I'd love to figure out a plan & get back into it. > > Although it sounds like maybe I should just hop on IRC. > > -J > > > > -- > > Saludos, > > Bruno González > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Jabber: stenyak AT gmail.com > > http://www.stenyak.com > -- Saludos, Bruno González _______________________________________________ Jabber: stenyak AT gmail.com http://www.stenyak.com
