-----Original Message----- From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.com [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.com] On Behalf Of Alex Ionescu Sent: 29. juli 2005 04:44 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] RE: [ros-svn] [gdalsnes] 16793: my 1st
The main reason why so many of the win32k rewrites ended was because people kept telling the developers doing it to give up, continue later, or focus on other tasks.
Yes, blame other people. It is so much easier. It certainly couldn't be that the developers who felt the need to rewrite several years of development effort in a few months took on too much work and lost motivation/interest before the work was completed. Working in smaller steps and keeping the code in the repository working at all times means you can loose interest/motivation at any time and zero work is lost. Yes, it requires some thinking/research/planning to do it in smaller steps, but you will have reduced the risk from being very high to be almost non-existent.
Casper