[Asterisk-Dev] Need help to get into the code

[Johnathan Corgan]

Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> Great!  So when can we expect your patch on the bugtracker?

I think you missed his whole point.

He was concerned that his own code he developed for a new channel had 
latent bugs because there was no way for him to validate his 
understanding of how the interface was supposed to work.  How can he 
divine the "thinking and intentions of the original developer" of the 
code?

Comments from someone who *thinks* they understand what was intended are 
inferior to comments by the *original developer* who actually knows 
about what he intended.

If we are now in a position where future developers have to essentially 
reverse engineer existing code in order to be able to write new code, 
that ups the bar for the skills needed to extend and enhance Asterisk. 
Of course, there are skilled developers who work this way in their 
sleep.  But they are few and far between.

-Johnathan