Re: [Gnome-devtools] What we're doing.

[Dave Camp <campd oit edu>]

Andrew Sutton <asutton21 home com> writes:

> i think it would be a mistake to focus only on the implementation
> portion of the development process. everybody has something to do that,
> but a truly integrated development environment needs to focus an all
> parts of the process, not just relegate certain tools to a process tools
> list.

I've been following you're discussion on gnome-dev-roadmap, and here
are my thoughts on the issue:

There are as many different development processes as there are
organizations.  The important thing in a development environment is to
support the process the *user* wants, not the process the implementor
of the environment happens to like.  For example, on your other list
you advocate integrating some sort of rational-style process into the
tools.  That's fine and dandy, if your organization uses and enjoys
the rational process.  On the other hand, there are plenty of darn
good software packages that were built differently. 

The point is, it is much more important to have an open framework that
can have process tools integrated than to base the whole framework on
one arbitrary set of tools.  We don't want to ignore these tools, but
we don't want to force them on the world.  

Since we don't have a legion of coders (there seem to be a lot more
talkers than coders in this area), we have to choose a subset to
implement first.  That subset is logically the implementation tools,
since these tools are common to all development processes.  If you'd
like to work on the other parts of the chain, we'd be happy to accept
your contributions.

My $0.02,
-dave