Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 00:35:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@netcom.com, nirva@ishiboo.com, rhh@ct.picker.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: Re: X-10 Mouse Remote patch Message-ID: <199806212235.AAA01054@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <199806212015.NAA01135@antipodes.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jun 21, 98 01:15:05 pm"
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In reply to Mike Smith who wrote:
> > On that note, I think we badly need a "house clean" through
> > the entire system, especially the kernel, but also parts of
> > userland, we have way to much crap in there because of not
> > thinking things through before pulling the trigger. If my 12+
> > years in this business has learned me anything its the 80/20
> > rule: think it through for 80% of the time then use 20% of
> > the time to implement it correctly.
>
> There hasn't been 12 years of communal software development at this
> level. What there has been suggests to me that a better approach is to
> spend 5% of the time implementing it as quickly as possible. 65% of
> the time arguing about why the implementation sucks, 20% of the time on
> abortive reimplementations and then 10% on doing it better.
>
> This 10% is then the leading 5% for the next iteration.
Get real :)
> > Well, I probably wasn't on multimedia at that time, and that doesn't
> > make the hack more "right", besides there is only so many things
> > you can keep an eye on..
>
> The MouseRemote support is no better or worse than the support for
> other not-very-mouselike things that are already in there. If you have
> time to design and implement a better, generic "input class" structure,
> be our guest.
Why should I do all the work ?? :)
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end?
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