[Chandler-dev] [Sum] The Great Architecture Discussion of 2007

[Katie Capps Parlante]

Hi Andi,

We've had to do a lot of rewriting/refactoring on Chandler as we figured 
out what we wanted and learned along the way. For example, the sharing 
layer has been rewritten several times, and now we have something we're 
pretty happy with. Most of my original code has been rewritten away. :) 
I don't think it means the original work was in vain.

That said, I can understand having the emotional reaction of not wanting 
to work on this refactoring project for personal reasons. As you have 
many talents we can put you on other projects.

I think you can be proud of the role you've played in the project so far 
  -- you stepped in under a cloud of (nearly) impossible requirements 
for the original repository and made it work and moved the project 
forward. Yay! The repository got us to Preview, that is a huge 
accomplishment. Chandler desktop is now one of the 4 applications I use 
all day every day. (The others being Thunderbird, Firefox and Adium).

Cheers,
Katie

Andi Vajda wrote:
> Silly ? For the past four and a half years, I've been under considerable 
> pressure to deliver on a persistence model that I strongly believe in - 
> that was chosen by OSAF way before I joined - to deliver I product and a 
> platform that were core to the vision that started all this. Persisting 
> objects, not data, and transparent persistence were part of this.
> 
> It is rather discouraging to be told after all this time and work that 
> we did it all wrong, and that we have to start over and that we need to 
> persist data instead of objects after all :)
> 
> Just like when you joined us, when you were already saying so, I offered 
> you my job. You're again, even more forcefully this time, doing the same.
> 
> Again, I'm offering to yield as I don't see how I can contribute in an 
> endeavour I don't believe in. It's not a matter of personal honor, 
> please leave that aside, but a matter of fairness to the project and to 
> myself.
> 
> I don't want to stand in the way of progress, in other words.
> 
> Good luck !
> 
> Andi..
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