Re: [phpGroupWare-developers] Nested db-objects

[Dr. Christian Böttger]

Hi,

Sigurd Nes schrieb:

> > From: Dave Hall address@hidden

> > This isn't a tiny change.  It is a major change.  
>
> I think its a tiny change to change it back 


It's tiny in the number of characters to change but major in the 
consequences.

> > The discussion about multiple database objects has come up several times
> > recently and the outcome has been that the db object should be treated
> > like a singleton.  It gets rather boring having the same discussions
> > over and over again when the underlying facts haven't changed.
>
> Well - is this the common consensus of the community? - its not clear to me.


Well, I'm not the community, but still the "Release Coordinator" - and I 
do agree with Dave (having been team leader for software development 
teams for quite some years in different roles in the past).

> I'm beginning to doubt that there will ever be a 18 - since the attitude seems 
> to be 'ready when ready' - and sudden constraints are imposed that breaks the 
> system - and calls for serious rework of existing working code.

Well, it *has* to be "ready when ready" just like Debian. No body pays 
us - it's all voluntary work. So how can anyone really impose any 
deadline? Noone has a handle on the  time people are able to commit to 
the project.

Having said that: yes, we can agree on a date when we all agree to plan 
to realese .18. But still, that's just a vague plan and nothing to be 
enforced.


> Of course there are stupid things (you might even call it crap) - but we cant 
> really rewrite the whole code all the time.

But we can and should fix stupid things on the way as we see them.

> The code is working - and we need one foot on the ground.

This is a somewhat dangerous proposition, regardless of the truth it holds.

We cannot afford to refrain from imposing rules e.g. the separation 
between business logic and storage - otherwise we will have a heap of 
crap in the near future. We have to be strict in some of these things.

In my opinion, the main reason (besides the trival one of lack of 
developers) for .18 taking so long is that we aloowed for much too long 
that such "crap" and "it's working for me, let's ship it" found it's way 
into the code and stayed there forever.

Regards

Christian aka bofh42
Release Coordinator phpGW

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