Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Counting so far

[Richard B. <ma...@ri...>]

Is this a case of win or loose?
Eytan against Pascal??

We've had all the theoretical explanations, every one has been able to
demonstrate their in-depth knowledge and their preference regarding object
model, a discussion is great, but lets get back to work now! Instead of
breaking up the group with petty rivalries.

There are different things to be done, and several groups of people showing
interest in them:

* NS6 debugging, starting at the core of the API, later the widgets.
several people showed interest here.

* Mac debugging, now we have some Mac users, their efforts should not be
shunned.

* Memory management, coupled with the basic structure of the API, OOP etc.
This is what Doug and Eytan showed a lot of interest in, why not set up a
test case, of a very basic API, so stability and memory use can be tested.
If there is an improvement, the benefits should be clear. Also this would
give people like me a chance to see what you are actually talking about, a
lot of technical abbreviations make the whole thing a bit confusing.

* User interfaces, several projects going on here, either web based or not,
Dan's Java Builder, or Henrik Våglins DynBuilder.
These projects might or might not take of, we won't know if we don't try.

* Documentation, Robert and Pascal have put in a great effort here, keep up
the good work.

* Designer access, here I mean access for the normal javascript coder, who
wants to check out the DynAPI, without necessarily knowing the code inside
out.
That's the part I'm working on as much as I can, supplying examples, and
answering user questions as I can. These people will become our future
user-base, and the step to DynAPI use should be as low as possible.
See what happened to PHP in 5 years time, after year one they were where we
are now.

* Widget development, if the widget model has stabilized, it would be great
to see some functional, error free, and logical widgets, we need window
management, timeline, etc + a whole bank of pathanim add-ons to do all kinds
of animation. There's a lot out there already which I'm trying to group as
it is.

* Group moderation, this is what Dann Pascal and Robert do (among others)
and is basically taking the decisions.
Someone has to do that, otherwise everybody would be overwriting each others
code in CVS 'cause they didn't like the "style".
There are a few things that could be improved here to, as I feel a lot of
knowledge gets lost as it's simply ignored, but it should come from two
sides, submitters should be able to accept at face value that their "great"
fix, wasn't accepted, but the moderator should at least acknowledge having
seen the submission, if not giving a reason for every line of code they
reject/accept.
Also, we should try to restrict any bug reports to something which can be
reproduced, I mean, if you say, mouse events don't work in a nested layer
containing an image, while the parent is moving across the screen, you
expect the moderator to spend time reproducing that specific example. If it
helps I'll open a public ftp account, with the latest snapshot preinstalled,
so bug examples can be uploaded, and are all tested against the latest
snapshot.

Anyway, I think we have to much work to do, to waste time counting...

Cheers,
Richard Bennett

ma...@ri...
www.richardinfo.com
(Everything running on, and ported to the 19/12/2000 snapshot of DynAPI2)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eytan Heidingsfeld" <ey...@tr...>
To: "Dynapi-Dev" <dyn...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 5:12 PM
Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] Counting so far


> For:
> Me
> Dann
> Barre
> Doug
> Gortsilas
> Against:
> Pascal
>
> I can't decide what Jordi is. And if anyone wants to move to the against
or
> be added to any of the 2 let me know
>
> 8an
>
>
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