Stalled custom field development

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 08:10, Sean McAfee wrote:
> I really hate that I have to keep harping on this, but...
> 
> Despite my best efforts, the custom fields discussion has stalled yet again.
> What is it going to take to make some real progress?

	To be fair, had you broken your implementation down into separate bugs
as I think I asked in a private email, I would have been doing review on
it now. :-) Did you get my email? I never got a response.

	I have a lot of comments on the patch that you posted, but I'm not
really able to give them review as part of the review process, because:

	(1) You posted the patch as a .tar.gz, which makes me unable to use
Bugzilla's attachment-commenting feature.

	(2) The patch is too huge, and needs to be broken down into separate
bugs. One bug for each step in comment 239 would probably be a good
start.

	(3) The patch doesn't include the modifications to Bugzilla that would
be necessary to make it active, so I can't see how the architecture
works.

	(4) It seems to address many more features than the basic necessary
implementation. And although that's great, incremental development tends
to get us higher-quality code, particularly in an Open Source
environment where we don't have a QA team and have to do intensive
review on small changes to get high-quality code.

	-Max