[Asterisk-Dev] [Rant] [long] - code style and quality

[Steve Underwood]

Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 12:34 +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
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>>If you don't like * the way it is, don't use it. If you want to make it 
>>better, submit patches.
>>
>>If you have the time to write such a long whiney and pointless message, 
>>you probably have the time to do something useful. Try that instead. 
>>Sure the Asterisk code is messy in lots of ways, but it actually exists 
>>in a useful state because the developers focussed on functionality. Most 
>>of the neat and stylish programs never make it to a working state. If 
>>you want to make useful criticism, look at the structural issues in *. 
>>There are many of those which could be far better. Do something useful 
>>about those, and people will be impressed.
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>And perhaps you could have checked the bugtracker before getting all
>high and mighty.  Mr. Rizzo has started posting patches to fix some of
>the issues that he has found.  Anyway, I think we need people to look at
>the code from Mr. Rizzo's viewpoint.  Coding style and quality are part
>of keeping a program maintainable, which is vital for the long-term
>health of a project.  I'm sure that we can find many projects that died
>(or were rewritten from scratch) because of code style and quality
>problems.
>
>Jeff
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Do people actually look at the bugtracker any more? I think most of us 
gave up long ago.

Regards,
Steve