Fwd: Goals for next weeks

[Wolodja Wentland]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:43 +1000, Eugenio Cano-Manuel Mendoza wrote:

> I know how to do it, in fact I kind of like it but if we do this then it
> would make sense to completely ignore env variables
> on generate_template_variables since they are already being merged by
> argsparse, but then again I think you thought of this already since your
> 'do_stuff' function doesn't have an env dictionary or anything... Problem
> will come if there's anything on the env that cannot be specified by a
> command line argument, but I cannot think of anything right now.

I have no problem with merging environment variables in two places, but
setting reasonable defaults for argparse is, in addition to everything else, a
sensible thing to do. But just for the sake of specification:

    * initialise (suitable) commond line options for argparse from the
      environment and document this behaviour in argparse
    * the data merging function should have access to the environment even if
      it doesn't do anything with it (yet) → so include it in the functions
      signature

All I want to achieve is that the merging behaviour is predictable, easy to
document and that it takes advantage of whatever the standard library offers
already.

> I'm not adding any more features this week, just improving what we already
> have (finish exception handling, divide the tests, this parsing/merging
> issue...)

That's perfectly fine by me. If you are running out of things to do feel free
to write a manpage ;)

> I would like to Hangout for a bit this weekend since the mid-term evaluation
> is next week. I just want to sit down and talk about what we have so far and
> most importantly what's left to be done.
[…]
> If you think we can discuss all that by email then it's fine for me too =)

I would very much like to organise a hangout too, but I guess it will be a bit
difficult to find a time that suits all three of us, given that we are now in
maximally different timezones. So we might just go ahead and plan a meeting
between the two of us. Contact me directly for details please.
-- 
Wolodja <debian at babilen5.org>

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