[Dynapi-Dev] Who stole my time ?

[Jordi 'I. M. <jmi...@or...>]

From the deepest and darkest swamps of work and personal problems did I emerge,
grasping for some air, just to meet 200 DynAPI-related mails. The hardest part
has been to smile at my boss at tell I was doing some research while I was
reading all of them. Maybe I have been involved for too long but now I feel (
please don't get me wrong here ) that my opinion is somehow respected and people
wants to know what I think about all these important issues. Ok, here we go.

- I have noticed an increase in the number of mails in this list. This must a be
good news because this means more people using the API.

- When there was pure DHTML-related trouble and discussing, the number of people
participating was very small. When it comes to discussing coding techniques in
general and OO architectures and so, there's a lot of people who's got something
to say. The logical conclusion would be that there's far more people who's got
the hability to improve the API code-speaking than people that can find/fix the
DHTML related bugs.

- NS6 has been out for a little time. There are bugs, and those will need to be
solved regarless of the object structure we choose for the API. Then, why don't
we generate two / many working teams ? Go ahead and work on a new object model,
it won't hurt the API. The good thing about an API is that its internal
structure can be changed and yet its external interface works the same. My
advice would be to remember that a very formal,modular, well documented and
scalable code that weights 80ks will be useless. This is not a compiled
environment, and SIZE DOES MATTER.

- Submitting a file to this list does not make any guarantee that it will be
analyzed or replied. I have a mail folder where I keep all the attachments, but
I don't have the time to take a look at them. I almost don't have time to shave,
lately. This does not mean we don't care about these posts, it is just a matter
of time. I tried to setup some file-uploading utily some time ago but nobody
used it. I can do it again and see what happens.

- Personally I feel more like helping people who can't get the loadpanel to work
than people that believes the code is not nice enought. Again, there's enough
people in this community to do all of the work, but I sometimes I can't help but
have the feeling that whereas there's a lot of people that can do all of these
fixing that needs to be done, only a few of us are expected to do it.

- Again, I can't get NS6 to work on my machine. I can't help. I wish I could. It
hurts me seeing all of these "NS6 fails to.. " posts and reposts and not being
able to help, but there's nothing I can do. Same goes for Mac and Linux.

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I finished my SMI menu interface, but I haven't been able to finish its docs.
Foreseing all of the posts / questions / complains that an undocumented release
would generate, I'd rather wait until I have the docs. Anyone interested mail me
and I'll send you what I have.

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I'll try it again. I'll keep a file list in my web site. This page will include
a list of files. None of them I will test, just post. So, If you want to submit
code, mail it to me ( ilm...@ca... ) , including a zipped file,
description and installation instructions. I will host and maintain the list,
but I will not guarantee that they work and all questions will be redirected to
the author of the file. This way at least those contributiuons won't get lost
among 30 rock-related discussions.




Do I look tired.