[Zope3-dev] Progress

[Steve Alexander]

Leonardo Rochael Almeida wrote:
> XP names the process of acquiring enlightenment about the problem domain
> thru writing code a 'spike'.
> 
> A spike should require the least amount of overhead possible, because
> you're only investigating the problem domain. In particular, I believe
> one shouldn't have the burden of writing tests for a spike, but only
> because spikes are throwaway code.
> 
> Since what we're trying to accomplish here is distributed-XP, I believe
> it's ok to have spike code on a CVS branch, so that others can look and
> comment and change. 


How about tagging all spike classes with the interface ISpike. Then make 
the nightly tests sweep for spikes in the main branch. :-)

Actually, that wasn't a serious suggestion.

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Steve