Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>]

On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 12:27 -0700, Victor Stone wrote:
> On 8/11/06, Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 13:52 -0300, Bruno Dilly wrote:
> > > I don't think I have time to extend the API for uploads before SoC
> > > deadline, but I can do it later. I'll continue developing CC tools.
> 
> understood. and just to be clear I was offering to do the back end of it.

Heya, it would still be awesome to extend the API for uploads as this
has been coming up more frequently.

> another question (sorry but I'm in a huge rush right so I can't check
> it out right now) but I didn't see off hand where the remix sources
> were passed into the upload post -- did I just miss that?
> 
> > >
> > > Really I'm reading the entire file into memory before writing into the
> > > socket. I don't know how I could do it better, I will study this
> > > point.
> 
> I think Nathan is on point here and certainly fits the working model
> of ccHost lol -- get it working now optimize later.

I agree as well!

> > This is also good for newbies to open source to realize how much
> > different the open source model is in terms of communicating in smaller
> > increments rather than the school-based approach which is to keep things
> > closed and in the dark until having one big grand monolithic release...
> 
> Well, I didn't go to school lol but I did work at commercial software
> companies for 20 years and I will echo what Jon says here --
> communication up front about plans and proposed coding implementation
> strategies at helps and my be critical in any team situation, open
> source or otherwise. The difference in OS projects is that you don't
> have all those meetings you have to drag your a$$ to which I would
> claim is a net positive.
> 
> Awesome work Bruno, thanks so much for doing this stuff!

Agree! You are on point Bruno...keep it up...only 7 days left until the
end of the Summer of Code!

Jon

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