On Fri, 2014-01-10 at 21:00 +0100, Johan Engelen wrote:
Hi all, Lately, I've become obsessed with code quality. I've been reading Bjourne Stroustrup's "bible" on C++11, watched all videos of the "Going Native" conferences, started using clang, ..., and it has made me much more aware of the language's facilities for preventing bugs. I regularly browse over Inkscape's code and try to fix things I think can be improved (janitorial); our source is a pretty big mess I really do think Inkscape can use some love to improve logic and to decrease some amount of spaghetti.
When ever you find something janitorial... please send an email to the list. I am always eager to learn!
I just saw the book "Effective C++", which I believe is a great resource to inspire thought and learn how to write better code, and is meant for experienced programmers. How do you guys feel about donating this book to our top committers? (if you feel this is too egoistic of me, *I* will pay for my own copy myself, no worries, and pass my copy on to the dev that was just below the cut-off point). In general: how do you guys feel about donating something to our top committers for their "education"? We would need some metric of what "top committers" means, we could use ohloh.net's numbers.
*For example*, we have 10 people that committed more than 50 times in the past 12 months. So that'd be 10 books = 10 x 31 euro = 310 euro cost --- shipping and whatnot --> 400 euro cost.
What do you think?
That sounds like a good idea to me. I currently have no C++ book. I remember in my previous life relying almost daily on Stroustrup's "The C ++ Programming Language", 2nd and 3rd editions (FYI, they are completely different, the 2nd ed is pre-STL and the 3rd ed seemed to talk about nothing but STL).
Tav