[OpenLayers-Dev] Different lon and lat map resolution (and other issues)

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

Christian López Espínola píše v Pá 02. 11. 2007 v 17:58 +0100:
> Hi Jachym,
> 
> > what do you understand with "test" ? Is it working demo?
> 
> He is talking about Unit Tests.
> See "How to create a patch", http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/CreatingPatches,
> where you'll find how to write those unit tests.

New thinks to learn, all right :-)

> 
> > IMHO, the patch with new feature should be accepted always, unless there
> > is some serious reason for not accepting it. Patches in general are
> > supposed to add new features - make the software more customizable for
> > everyones needs. If now I'm the only one, who needs it, who can say,
> > there will be nobody in the future?
> 
> I understand your frustration, but the patches have to been reviewed.
> New code brings new bugs, so OL devs have to be cautious with it. My
> experience show me that new features patches need more time than bug
> fixes for going into the trunk, but if they are good, they'll go.
> I have contributed some patch to OL. Some of them are into the trunk,
> but otherst still not. Anyway, if someone needs them, they can find
> them in the trac and apply them on their local copy or sandbox.
> Patience :-)

No, that is my problem: trunk is always changing. I'm not able to
provide up to date patches for months. After then, reviewer just says,
the patch could not be applied, and that was it.

> 
> > If I understand your last sentence right - we are expected to keep our
> > patches fresh for several weeks or months? If so, I would have to ask,
> > if there could be some better development model(?).
> 
> I have contributed to some opensource projects, not only OL, and my
> experience shows me that the development model in OL is one of the
> betters I have participated. Code reviews, unit tests, the great way
> of using trac... Anyway, if you know how to improve it, I'm sure all
> of us will be glad of reading suggestions :-)

OL is also not the only project, I know and I was contributing to. I do
not say, the model is bad. I do just lack _any_ feedback for several
months.

> 
> > It is not going only about this one issue - I have several other
> > improvements, Marker/Label.js, Popup.js, LayerSwitcher.js and others.
> > But I'm asking myself, if it is worth the work, to prepare patches, if
> > nobody even reviews them :-(
> 
> If they improve the OL framework, I'm sure they'll be welcome.

OK. How shall I do it? 

1) prepare patch
2) write example
3) write unit test

- wait, till somebody will drop it
- update all above to current of trunk

?

Well, it just does not make fun, to keep synchronized with trunk too
long :-(

jachym
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