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On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:44:24 +0200 |
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Luca Longinotti <chtekk@g.o> wrote: |
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> TreeCleaners, to an extent Security etc. _do_ remove what is dead, |
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> what has reached points of unmaintainability and brokenness that |
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> cannot be anymore supported. The rest still is there because it works |
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> (so why remove it?), or because it has someone that keeps it alive |
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> (so why remove it?). If there's something to do here, it's kicking |
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> out old, broken stuff etc. faster and improving QA (as Kevin already |
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> pointed out), definitely not making it so difficult to add new stuff |
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> that no one will, that only produces stagnation of the tree in the |
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> end. |
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Maybe we could all move toward a more productive use of this metaphor |
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of an actual tree. |
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Stuff lives in trees, birds nest there, leaves grow, twigs spring, |
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branches, er branch off, dead leaves fall to the ground, new leaves |
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bud, buds even bud, all kinds of stuff goes on throughout the life of a |
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tree, yet I have really never come across a tree that "stagnates". It |
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just isn't something that trees get up to. Maybe it's only when birds |
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start getting territorial about stuff (official maintainership through |
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metadata during longe leaves of absence, wanting to stop some kinds of |
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birds nesting, forbidding new suns to grow toward) that the tree starts |
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looking ugly and useless and perhaps might starve. |
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This tree is rooted in an openly available and usable plenty of soil. It |
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is this "software"'s use to the tree as well as the tree's use to the |
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software that keeps the tree alive, and there is an entire ecosystem |
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that revolves around keeping itself alive, with a vivid interest in |
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keeping even this tree. Us devs are perhaps the tiny ants that milk the |
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plant lice that live on the leaves of our tree. We may not always see |
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the whole of the tree and the height and breadth it reaches, seeing as |
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we are climbing the branches far from the furthest reaches of twigs and |
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roots , but we do continously work to clean up our tree and make it |
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more useful to at least ourselves, helping many others as we go along |
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to find their way among the many branches, and see better horizons. |
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Kind regards, |
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JeR |
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