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On Tuesday, November 2, 2010, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> during reorganizing kdelibs, a sh**load for garbage would be unearthed,
> which would have to be rewritten or purged by the new quality standards.

this is precisely why i want to see a clear set of goals and an "acceptable=
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risk profile" be created _before_ we set off in any such direction.

otherwise the "most disruptive" situation you describe may indeed come to p=
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rather completely without that really being in our plan. with a proper=20
definition of what we want, what we can do, what we are willing to go throu=
gh=20
to get that and what we aren't willing to accept we should be able to avoid=
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that.

for instance, we may say that we are not going to rewrite "garbage" we unea=
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if it is currently working for our applications. this would be a statement=
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made to avoid "perfect is the enemy of good" drowning the effort in a black=
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hole of rewriting things just because we happen to notice the dirt under th=
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hood. (keep in mind that Qt also has tons of cruft in it; it's a practical=
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issue.)

in a perfect world, we may be able to afford doing that, but in the one we=
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live in we may determine that we are not capable of doing both a=20
reorganization of the libraries and an allignment with Qt _and_ rewrite the=
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majority of cruft that exists.=20

this is why we need to set out goals and allowances.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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