> > > > I think it is important that we do get good code that can be > > understood and maintained fairly easily. Particular with quite a few > > people working on this we should communicate and agree, certainly not > > to the last detail, but on overall concepts. Take this comment in the > > spirit - being constructive critical with the aim of moving forward in > > some form of coherence - and at the same time appreciative that new > > functionality is added all the time. So let us have a discussion how > > this should be done before implementation. Looking forward to > > comments. > > I agree whole heartedly that we should communicate, in > fact I think it would be fantastic. However, if one makes a proposal > and gets no response, what should the > procedure be? If we have to wait for everyone to say yes (or no) then I > suppose we'll not make very much > progress. > > I suppose that at some point, someone will have to be appointed (oh! > lucky person!) the software referee, but > it is a bit too early now. So, how do we proceed? Do we only put > software into our personal repositories and > hope that it gets tested/considered? Or do we, as has been the case, > check it in to CVS, tag appropriately and > let it be judged by the market? As I understand it (which may not be > completely correct) the point of having a > system of tagging like we have, (at least in principal, if folks would > actually use it, it would be even better!) is that > it is always possible to go back, with not tooo much effort to Ver. > N-1. So nothing is lost by making false starts, > except a (hopefully) small amount of time. > > Cheers, > Ian > ------------------------------ > > > Flemming Videbaek > > Physics Department > > Brookhaven National Laboratory > > tlf: 631-344-4106 > > fax: 631-344-1334 > > videbaek@bnl.gov > > -- > Ian-------------------------------------------------------------------- > | I.G. Bearden | > | Niels Bohr Institute Tb 3 email: bearden@nbi.dk | > | Blegdamsvej 17 phone: (+45) 35 32 53 23 | > | K=F8benhavn =D8 FAX: (+45) 31 42 10 16 = > | > | Danmark | > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > --------------BCF59AD3953E0E42E6366B3D > Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> > <html> > <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#33CC00" vlink="#000000" alink="#000088"> > > <blockquote TYPE=CITE><font size=+0>I think it is important that we do > get good code that can be understood and maintained fairly easily. Particular > with quite a few people working on this we should communicate and agree, > certainly not to the last detail, but on overall concepts. Take this comment > in the spirit - being constructive critical with the aim of moving forward > in some form of coherence - and at the same time appreciative that new > functionality is added all the time. So let us have a discussion how this > should be done before implementation. Looking forward to comments.</font></blockquote> > I agree whole heartedly that we should communicate, in > <br>fact I think it would be fantastic. However, if one makes a proposal > and gets no response, what should the > <br>procedure be? If we have to wait for everyone to say yes (or > no) then I suppose we'll not make very much > <br>progress. > <p>I suppose that at some point, someone will have to be appointed (oh! > lucky person!) the software referee, but > <br>it is a bit too early now. So, how do we proceed? > Do we only put software into our personal repositories and > <br>hope that it gets tested/considered? Or do we, as has been the > case, check it in to CVS, tag appropriately and > <br>let it be judged by the market? As I understand it (which may > not be completely correct) the point of having a > <br>system of tagging like we have, (at least in principal, if folks would > actually use it, it would be even better!) is that > <br>it is always possible to go back, with not tooo much effort to Ver. > N-1. So nothing is lost by making false starts, > <br>except a (hopefully) small amount of time. > <p>Cheers, > <br>Ian > <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>------------------------------</font></font> > <blockquote TYPE=CITE><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Flemming Videbaek</font></font> > <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Physics Department</font></font> > <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Brookhaven National Laboratory</font></font> > <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>tlf: 631-344-4106</font></font> > <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>fax: 631-344-1334</font></font> > <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1><a href="mailto:videbaek@bnl.gov">videbaek@bnl.gov</a></font></font></blockquote> > > <pre>-- > Ian-------------------------------------------------------------------- > | I.G. Bearden | > | Niels Bohr Institute Tb 3 email: bearden@nbi.dk | > | Blegdamsvej 17 phone: (+45) 35 32 53 23 | > | København Ø FAX: (+45) 31 42 10 16 | > | Danmark | > ----------------------------------------------------------------------</pre> > > </body> > </html> > > --------------BCF59AD3953E0E42E6366B3D-- -- Ian-------------------------------------------------------------------- | I.G. Bearden | | Niels Bohr Institute Tb 3 email: bearden@nbi.dk | | Blegdamsvej 17 phone: (+45) 35 32 53 23 | | København Ø FAX: (+45) 31 42 10 16 | | Danmark | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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