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Yes, projects that claim to be infrastructure and come with no documentation, and presumably few comments, and who knows what unit tests. It would be an exagge
by jerrya 13y ago
Yes, projects that claim to be infrastructure and come with no documentation, and presumably few comments, and who knows what unit tests.
It would be an exaggeration to refer to that as minimally viable code (mvc). It is really only a statement of the lack of engineering actually being practiced, and makes me wonder about the lack of robustness, the lack of security, the numbers of bugs in the systems produced.
I am not certain this is a winning strategy for open source.
- astrodust 13y agoSomething needs to be done to address this enormous problem. One of the worst examples I've come across lately is Zookeeper (http://zookeeper.apache.org/ http://zookeeper.apache.org/), which should win an award for how confusingly useless the documentation is. The Java source is probably refreshingly concise.
- sixothree 13y agoMy number one annoyance about many open source projects is that they often don't compile out of the box. I can't even count the number of times I've downloaded a library only to have it fail miserably on compile because of some strange state the author left the source code in, or a library he wrote and failed to include. Etc etc.