Re: HOWTO: Joining the Zynauts

On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 16:31, mark guertin wrote:

> Life is much clearer and more fruitful when you are writing code to 
> meet a predetermined set of goals and specs, am I'm looking forward to 
> getting some prelim specs hammered down with the community.
> 
> Gerk

Most definatly.. If you have ever worked in a job where your reqs for
whatever project ( code or otherwise )  constantly are in flux due to oh
.. some marketroid changin his/her mind ever 2 weeks. You know that your
project ends up running on for 12 months with 600 1/2 implemented
features and no real substantial product to speek of. My proposal is
that we make some formal layout for an RFC, ERD (Request for Comments,
Engineering Requirements Doc) for major parts of the distribution. This
initiates a common and recognizable format for documentors, coders, and
users alike to understand the end-goals ..  I know that Gentoo had just
announced that they would be taking on a similar approach with feature
propsals. I know that up-front this type of stuff can tend to put people
off, but in the end it will ensure that if another person wants to come
along and add a tool or what not that could interface with what your
working on. They know where to go to find the API/spec or whatever. I
think will be sooo important with the multi-tiered portage architecture
proposals and making sure we can all work in parellel and know that the
end products will fit together.  

> 
> 
> On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 7:20 PM, Zach Welch wrote:
> 
> > As such, one of the chief mottos I have begun to float around the
> > community is "Show Me The Spec!".  The implication being that ideas may
> > be infinite, but resources are not.  If you are resistant to that
> > friendly notion, then you will be met with the more adamant response to
> > "WTFM"... need I elaborate further? :)
> 
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