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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 05:32:26PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
<snip>
> > I think he's mainly talking about the first point: Easy to identify the
> > offending code and fix it. The other goal (new ISO in a timeley
> > fashion) is more geared towards our goal of automating the ISO creation
> > process.
>
> I think they're both necessary ingredients to satisfy "easy to fix and
> update" requirement, no matter how fast you can fix the bug in the code
> it doesnt matter until theres an iso with the code on it (we tend to
> ignore that part in our contituents, since its relatively automatic) on
> the other hand, if it takes you very little time to release an iso but
> the code is a nightmare, you have the same result. The question is, are
> they both long term goals? short term goals? one is long the other short?
> If they're both short term goals, how does that effect the near term 
> schedule?

I believe they're both short-term goals, at least currently, with the
ISO automation being higher priority than the modularization for these
reasons:
1) Faster ISO creation/release means we can verify our bugs are fixed
faster
2) Faster ISO creation/release means we can try new features/ideas
faster
3) Faster ISO creation/release means that if we don't like a
feature/idea/fix that went in it's easy to generate a new ISO with a
better one
4) Once the modularization is "done" it'll now be easy to generate an
ISO with the new menu, and if it didn't quite work, fix and release a
new one.

A faster ISO creation/release method will mean faster fixes and an
easier time testing any changes we think the ISO needs, IMO.

<snip>
> Perhaps call a meeting to scrub through all the bugs? Or just have david
> go through them and ask people to change if they disagree.

I like the latter idea as that tends to get more responses from our
crew. :) It also takes less overall time.

-sandalle

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