Re: Code review/discussion time again.

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:24:06AM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > The rejected patch is unfortunate, but in the near future I think
> > we'll continue to see good things sometimes being rejected.  Most
> > developers (including Carl) only know bits and pieces of the
> > architecture, so a lot of patches won't be understood.
> 
> That's not a good situation.  Developers come and go.  So it would seem
> like a good idea to make the architecture more transparent.  Part of
> that is documentation, part of it is simplification.

I agree, but there's no magic wand to wave to get simpler
architecture and documentation.  Any change to the architecture
should only be done if it's understood, which means waiting for
Han-Wen's blessing for any patch.

You're welcome to write up documentation about the current
architecture; you're probably one of the top 10 people in the
world when it comes to knowledge of lilypond architecture.  It
would either go in Documentation/extending/ or
Documentation/contributor/programming-work.itexi, depending on
precisely what kind of description you're thinking about writing.

Cheers,
- Graham