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From: | Joseph Rushton Wakeling |
Subject: | Re: Supporting my work on LilyPond financially |
Date: | Sun, 01 Dec 2013 12:26:02 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1 |
On 30/11/13 21:40, David Kastrup wrote:
The backend is much less coherent, so expertise is harder to acquire, people tend to work with partial knowledge, and progress is a lot more fragile. We need to get those four months down, and yes, a shouting match is not going to help. What will help is refactoring and rearchitecturing, and that needs people with a thorough programming background.
Is it perhaps worthwhile having a purely "backend cycle" where _all_ development effort is focused on turning the backend into something that's easy to work with?
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