| Re: [nebula-dev] my issues with Dating Nebula's widgets |
Wim, I didn’t mean to be offensive, sorry if it sounds this way. I am aware that we are really benefitting from open source software and of course I should not expect to get everything for free the way I want to use it. The time it took did frustrate me because it is so much more than I had estimated but let me be clear that I am not blaming the Nebula team for this. It is very hard to make totally bug free software and keep the programmers using it happy. I do think that it could be called “yak shaving” from my initial point of view of switching all of my date selectors from DateChooserCombo to CDateTime. I thought in principle it shouldn’t take much time to do this because it’s a “black box” with as input and output a Date. I estimated that I would need about one and a half hour for this and I still think this would have been a reasonable estimate if I didn’t have these issues. Then I found two issues and thought it would be simple to fix the focus issue by adding a focus listener to the text box. I had to further open the black box to get to the text field to do this. This seemed to initially fix the bug, but I found another issue with this fix that it didn’t work when pressing the “clear” button. So I should further open up the black box to fix this. At that point I cannot honestly predict what further things I will have to do to fix the issue. In this sense I do think it is like yak shaving. The only wise decision for me is to stop right there. I cannot estimate how long it would take me to fix these two issues. It’s not worth it over the alternative of using the DateChooserComboCellEditor which only has a minor issue of not easily selecting a year. Regards, Henno Van: nebula-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nebula-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] Namens Wim Jongman Thank you for the time you took but I cannot resist a little lecture. I hope to alter some of your perspectives and expectations and I also hope you can agree with me. Here it goes:
My understanding of Yak shaving is that you end up doing something completely unrelated. IMO, fixing bugs in code that you use would only be Yak shaving if you are not a programmer.
Well... Somebodies boss has to pay for maintaining the widgets right? Don't you think it is fair that your boss chips in? Free does not mean gratis. Best regards, Wim |