Re: Phil meet y-devel; y-devel meet Phil

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:02:10PM +0100, [email protected] wrote:
> Mark and I have had some chats about usability in general and how
> to apply it to the file manager in particular. I find it relatively
> difficult to formulate the plan in text only -- I've only ever
> explained it face-to-face, so I think I'll need to produce some kind
> of a document with pretty pictures before it will make sense to anyone
> else.

Right. That at least explains the address. You know there is a school
of thought that says that if you can code it, you can write it in english,
too.  :-)

Anyway, we can use the chatter, if nothing else. Explain away.


[snip: throwaway programs to flesh out the api]
> 
> This is mostly design and application-architecture work.

Basically, ACK. I'm not promising I can write much or anything at
all, being a overworked underpaid sysadmin might be a factor in that.
But if I had the time the first I'd work on is to stabilize the build
environment so I don't have to chase five gnu tools to whatever is the
latest version this week just to be able to build the latest development
versions of Y. Then having shots at building apis would become easier
for me, and I'd imagine for others as well.


[snip]
> In the past, Mark has tended to outstrip me in terms of lines of
> usable code produced per unit time; but that all seemed to change when
> he got FF XI...

Oh, and we thought he had work or a life or whatever. How disappointing.
:-)


-- 
  j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .