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The count of the experts and admins increases, but still no one takes a look at the snippets ? Why is that ?
Three or four times I PM to some of the dudes in charge, I've been answered that it takes time to look at the code, that there are problems with the snippet system and still I have the feeling that nobody cares about the snippets section.
Why is that ?
Why I have to shout every time to get some attention ? Not a single snippet has been approved until I write here or send message to someone about it. This practice only demotivates me and I'm sure I'm not the only one feel the same.
I'm not a member of the </dream.in.code> staff but I know how you feel in this situation. There are languages that just aren't as popular as other languages, obviously the languages with lower popularity are going to get the least attention (I'm guessing your snippet was made in Ruby right?).
I'm in no way bagging Ruby, infact I've been planning on learning it for a while, but sometimes you need to put yourself in the moderator's shoes, they may actually not know much about Ruby, nobody is perfect. If your snippet was coded in C++ then I'd obviously expect better, but Ruby isn't quite as popular as of today. I once went through this stage with the snippets as well, I chose to make C# snippets instead of VB.NET to boost approval time (and you may or may not learn a couple of new things accidentally along the way ).
</DIC> is an empathetic dictatorship, not a democracy (from my understanding). Just sit tight and try to not let it get the best of you .
Basically, it doesn't matter what is the language. Why there is Ruby or Python snippet section when there are no guys to handle them ? And I'm talking about one, maximum two snippets per month. The other thing is that Ruby and Python syntax is clean and easy to understand. We are not talking about Assembler for example. Even programmer using other language will understand what's going on in Ruby or Python code.
Ruby and Python are languages I don't work with (Ruby never, Python not in over a decade) and I have nothing on my system installed to test either so I normally don't deal with those. I know it can be frustrating (trust me, I haven't always been a Moderator), but now that I am I can tell you that there is a process in place. We have 98,000+ members and maybe 15 on the team, if you do the math you can see why sometimes it takes a bit of time to get everything viewed, tested and approved.
Bump, I had a few rejects for lack of comments on the code. Exactly how many comments are warranted? I have an accurate description within the required sections and a few in code comments as I feel is necessary. I went ahead and resubmitted some python code(s) with a comment for nearly every line now in case someone had some confusion. What is a good balance for future reference?
There is no set in stone measure. So when you submit code, the best way to share the information is to comment as the code progresses, making sure all information about what the code is doing, as well as what it requires is being transfered to the reader. It would defeat the purpose of code snippets if no one could easily tell what it did.
BTW, please don't rock my boat if your code was in fact very clear. I don't know which exact code snippet you are referring to. I am simply speaking in generality.
kya i was always told 1:3 is the ratio. comment for every 3 lines of code. but thats obviously a basic guideline.
Personally I prefer the 0:infinity ratio especially on completed code but that is me, and comments get annoying. If I don't understand what the code does I shouldn't be looking at it, end of story.
I understand that getting tutorials and snippets visible takes some time and it can be annoying to wait, but patience is a virtue that I am willing to use. If you can't wait around for thing sto come your way then what point is there in most of life? I have been writing tutorials lately for Actionscript (though I won't be suprised if my latest one isn't accepted, it wasn't my best, or most informative tutorial), but not many people are masters at AS (I don't even classify myself as one, I just know enough to get by) so it takes some time for the stuff to get looked through. It isn't that the coding language is hard to understand, after all AS is very similar to other languages, it just takes time to get someone to go through the whole snippet/tutorial and make sure that it works out.
I understand, I am a big fan of code commenting, but the python snippets in question involved some nearly self explanatory (or for the most part self documenting) in my opinion. Just curious, no hard feelings or ill will towards anyone.
Nice work guys, even a month is not enough to look at 6 or 7 lines of code. You can delete Ruby snippet section and maybe others too and focus on C/C++, Java and PHP because anything else is simply shit.
This post has been edited by MitkOK: 17 Aug, 2008 - 05:25 AM
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