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

[Fernando Romo]

Steve:

is not a complain, i think is a suggestion and must be considere the 
idea. Obviusly the goal of * is make a stable and useful product, but a 
good code style help the manteiners to make bug tracking and patch easy. 
I read a lot of lines of the asterisk code and found some routines very 
cleaver and other very abstract.

The priority is the funcionality and stability, but in another time make 
a code clean up and documentation helps * be more useful for all the people.

Maybe some people wants to take this role in the project, thas is good, 
and left the core developers to advance faster.

Ideas are welcome

Best Regards...... Fernando Romo (pop at cofradia.org).

Steve Underwood wrote:

> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Steve