Re: [Babeldoc-devel] PipelineStageFactory

[<ek...@ba...>]

Gentlemen, the last thing I want to do is be the cause of the delay of the 
initial release.  I "walked onto" this project very late in your 
development cycle and have been quite a drain on your resources in order 
to get the assistance I need in implementing this for my purposes.  I 
never expected the software to be "custom built" for my needs.  The 
product will never be "all things to all people". 

The issue of Exceptions may be a touchy one ... I certainly don't want to 
go around changing the method signatures of the majority of methods in the 
system if the current functionality meets most people's needs right now. 
Whether I discovered a rare instance of an exception not being handled 
well or if this "issue" is propogated all throughout the system, I have no 
idea.  I get the impression that what I've proposed today may be a bigger 
modification than is desired at this point.

As you are aware, I have incredibly tight deadlines for production 
implementation (less than 4 weeks at this point) and hence may not be able 
to provide the type of "community support" that most other participants in 
an open-source project can provide.  And I don't want other people 
spending their time and effort making modifications solely for my 
consumption.

I am equally open to the following options:
1. Me implementing my own Logging extension that throws a RuntimeException 
whenever an Error Log request is made, thereby affecting no one else
2. Us investigating which discarded exceptions are legitimate and which 
need to be addressed and dividing the work to do it ... this can take a 
tremendous amount of analysis for someone not familiar with the codebase
3. Me diverging from the codebase at this point, implementing my own 
exception handling, and perhaps merging back after 1.0 is released.

I'm open to any of the above.  Bruce, I look to you for guidance on this. 
Thanks.

Erik



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Subject:        Re: [Babeldoc-devel] PipelineStageFactory


If you asking me I would not hurry with this realase.

We do plan some changes in core module that could
impact on all other modules. I guess there will be
more changes like this since requirements that Erik
has are pretty different than those that you had when
you have started to write Babeldoc and those that I
had in my projects. This will require a lot of
testing.  Some aspects that was not important for us
will be important for Erik's project so he will
probably do more changes (which is good thing because
it will improve Babeldoc and make it applicable to
problems that was not initialy planned).



Also, note that I will be on vacation between April
25th and May 5th.

Dejan




--- Bruce McDonald <br...@mc...> wrote:
> Dejan,
>
> The release, all things being equal will go out on
> May 2 2003
>
> regards,
> Bruce.
>



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