[Gnumed-devel] Vision

[Richard Terry]

I wish you guys would change the headers to reflect the content!

Agree of course with Hilmar, I've laboured this point over and over and over 
again for several years.

It is interesting that we have  Daniel, obviously another talented newcomer 
interested in helping gnuMed.

Daniel will, I predict, go the way of so many other potential developers who 
have abandoned gnuMed, and will give up in frustration because of an attitude 
which is unable to see the bigger picture.

As I've said time, time and time again, and as Daniel has pointed out to you, 
projects need management and planning.

Karsten, the tight control you seem to keep on the process has been the death 
knell for gnumed for a long long time.

The weight of evidence is against your approach is overwhelming ( I'm not 
meaning  your coding per-se of course which I am not critisizing, and without 
with, probably nothing much in gnuMEd would exist).

Why would one bother, when the mega hours of time expended for so long (6 
years now) has not produced a program that can even  create a new patient 
properly nor import demographic databases from other sources, when the vision 
of others is just left to rot by the wayside.

Regards

Richard

On Friday 16 December 2005 20:41, Hilmar Berger wrote:
> Hi,
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 20:27:08 +0100
>
> Sebastian Hilbert <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Without a clear vision, your specs will be wrong (written down or not),
> > > which will finally result in useless code.
> >
> > Absolutely not true. I have no idea what gives you this impression. A
> > vision can develop while you code. It takes longer but it is way better
> > than a vision that is screwed.
>
> I guess that is the point we disagree. You say that it is better to start
> coding even if you are not sure what you exactly want. I am quite convinced
> that making a at least rough plan (specs) before starting to code will save
> you time in the end. That is, unless you are not faster coding than
> thinking.
>
> Hilmar