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[Olof Bjarnason <olof.bjarnason@xxxxxxxxx>]

Umm I'm not following anymore.

Is the wiki used for 'blueprints' today..? And we are migrating to
Launchpads "blueprint" system?

I hadn't seen the blueprints-thing on the wiki - and it seems to be
offline at the moment.

Keep evolving! This is fun.

2009/8/17 Charlie Poole <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Olof,
>
> I've been thinking about some critical blueprints I have to
> write, but now I think I should put that aside and do a
> few rather easy ones, so we can discuss format. :-)
>
> Feel free to create any you are interested in yourself - it
> doesn't take any special launchpad authority and I just
> made sure you could write under :dev:specs in the wiki.
>
> Charlie
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Olof Bjarnason [mailto:olof.bjarnason@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 10:58 AM
>> To: Charlie Poole
>> Cc: Andreas Schlapsi; nunit-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re: [Nunit-dev] Blueprint format
>>
>> 2009/8/17 Charlie Poole <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Hi Olof,
>> >
>> >> Sound OK to me, although I find the separation of "design"
>> >> and "implementation" somewhat strange.. To me they are the
>> same thing.
>> >
>> > Maybe the words are wrong.
>> >
>> >> Here's an attempt..
>> >>
>> >> Summary
>> >> Rationale
>> >> Usage examples
>> >
>> > User stories?
>>
>> Wording is so hard! :)
>>
>> I meant what you seem to be meaning with "Design" - the public API.
>>
>> Even more to the point: I meant examples of the usage of the
>> proposed new feature, as in how it would look to the end
>> user, in code.
>>
>> >
>> >> Design suggestions
>> >
>> > If this is a specification, then suggestions doesn't seem
>> to make much
>> > sense. Maybe you are thinking that the design may be implemented by
>> > somebody other than the author of the blueprint, and you
>> don't want to
>> > lock them down too much. In that case, I would say only put in what
>> > needs to be specified and leave out everything else.
>>
>> Yes suggestions was meant as "hints on implementation". But
>> I'm not quite fond of this as it suggests things that ought
>> to be left for later (after writing the first test!).
>>
>> >
>> >> Unresolved issues
>> >
>> > This could be a transient heading untill things are
>> actually resolved.
>> >
>> > I'm still not sure about implementation - maybe we need it for some
>> > specs. For example, we may decide to release a feature in
>> stages and
>> > we would want that as part of an implementation plan. Certainly, we
>> > don't need a section that tells us how to code it.
>>
>> I think I like your later suggestion on this thread - wait
>> with anything "template:ish" and in general, be liberal.
>>
>> With that said - I wouldn't mind if the "start here templete"
>> would adhere to the development style of 90% of the NUnit
>> developers (I
>> guess): TDD. So instead if talking of details, just explain
>> via examples.
>>
>> Examples + rationale are the only important stuff I think ..
>>
>> >
>> > Charlie
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Andreas
>> >> >
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