Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: baz format archives in tla

[Mark Flacy]

On 2006.04.05 22:55, Thomas Lord wrote:
> Anyway, you speak frankly in the face of bullshit and use nasty  
> words like "fuck". I guess you're hard to work with, too.  :-)

About like you.  I'm also a software architect and I fully understand  
the need to "stand fast" against changes which do not fit the  
architecture.  I'm prepared to argue my positions and I expect my  
designers to argue theirs.  If they convince that my position is  
wrong or otherwise suboptimal, I'll be more than happy to change my  
mind as well as giving them the credit for the change to the better  
way of doing things.  If they don't, I'll shrug and tell them that we  
aren't doing it their way.

As an architect, you're responsible for the structure of the software  
itself.  That normally includes a vision of what it is supposed to do  
and how it will do it.  A lot of designers don't see that and only  
see the immediate problem which they are trying to solve.

There are some designers with whom I work who I am much more likely  
to listen to if they tell me that I'm taking things in the wrong  
direction.  There are other designers whose opinions are less than  
worthless.

I have *my* opinions of gnu arch (tla in particular), but I haven't  
put the amount of thought into the problem space and overall design  
as you have.  When I think that my opinion might be valid, I'll  
mention them here; I'm nowhere near being a subject matter expert on  
SCM theory and don't really have a desire to be one.