about Mark...

[Richmond]

On 10/05/15 19:53, Mark Waddingham wrote:
>> It might be easier if, for goofy types like myself, those "things" at
>> that web address were explained in some way that we could understand.
>
> Well, I think 'trust' comes in here to a certain degree - i.e. if you 
> trust that we are doing the right thing, and are doing so for the 
> benefit of the 'community as a whole' then you'd probably be less 
> concerned about the technical details (unless they directly impact you 
> in something you are doing).
>
> Ultimately the github presentation of the source is an important means 
> of communication which any body working directly on the product have 
> so there is only so far we could take it in terms of explaining each 
> pull request in a more 'generally understandable' way. (However, I do 
> agree that our pull requests and commit history do not have overall 
> enough detail in them - this is something we are working to change as 
> we evolve as an open-source project and also with a larger engineering 
> team).
>
> The question is, then, what information would be useful and how can we 
> present it in such a way that it doesn't actually detract from the 
> other 'doing' too much. (e.g. We could explain each minor bugfix in 
> depth, but as a result fix less bugs - the balance here is really 
> important).
>

Point taken.

Richmond.