Steve Bennett wrote:
On 12/31/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
If you're suggesting that we need to start asking for permission before we commit every single improvement to the software, then you can forget it; a lot of them have to be done to make the site more stable.
Asking permission? No. But the current situation looks to me like:
- Developers randomly without any warning make unannounced changes
that affect users. 2) CSS and Javascript hackers randomly without any warning make unannounced changes that affect users. 3) Users get peeved due to their feeling of powerlessness, and not knowing any better, blame developers or CSS/Javascript hackers at random. 4) Developers consider this unfair.
How do you think this can be improved?
one could introduce a RTC (review then commit) process instead CTR, whereas one could do the review on a "staging branch" in order to be more efficient.
I am a developer myself and I also would prefer to commit every time I do a change and consider it good, but I had to come to realize that software in general is for people using it and hence the user is king/queen and all good intentions are worthless if such a gap arises.
Just my 2 cents
Michael