Telsa Gwynne wrote:
She's right. I wanted to contribute and give something back to a movement that has given me a lot. And it's a movement that probablyneeds Telsa the writer or Telsa the bug-finder or even Telsa the approver-of-posts-held-for-moderation a lot more than Telsa thetrying-to-write-code. And I understand that.But damn, the idea that all of this is completely and utterly subordinateto your "clever coders" galls me.
But writing and bug-finding /are/ subordinate though -- in the sense they only happen after the code's written...
I wonder how plausible it actually is to change that; and have coders and documenters and, shall we say, user acceptance testers, concurrently designing and implementing stuff?
I can't think of anywhere, except maybe in game development, that actually happens, but maybe I'm just ignorant?
Perhaps half the problem is that to get a non-vapourware project started you have to have a programmer, but you don't necessarily need documentation or usability.
Cheers, aj