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One usually adapts to unforseen problems, not ones that are known |
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going into the project. |
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Your suggestion is akin to buying a car that you know has bad tires, a |
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bad alternator, a rusted body, and sundry other things wrong with it |
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for full price, and just planning on fixing when it actually breaks. |
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It costs a lot more that way. |
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On 11/13/05, Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 10:26 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> > If users are interested in non-critical information, there's already a |
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> > mechanism in place for them to get such things. They can join the |
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> > mailing lists. Do we not already have a gentoo-events list? We also |
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> > have a gentoo-releng list, or gentoo-announce. |
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> At this point, I think you're suggesting that we different news carried |
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> by different mediums. If so, I think that's very different from the |
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> proposal I'm putting forward. |
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> > > I'm not hoping for a 100% perfect technical solution straight away. |
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> > I am. Anything less at this point is a half-assed design. The *design* |
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> > should be 100% from the start. While implementation can occur in |
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> > stages, you should not design as you go. |
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> I think that's a worthy goal, but looking around, it looks to me that |
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> software design just doesn't work like that in real life. Designs have |
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> to adapt and change as time passes, not just implementations. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Stu |
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