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Re: About the WPI Library
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Originally Posted by Rapture'sFinest View Post
... To save myself the time of ranting and save this decently peaceful place of a long, weird post about bad code (similar to what other mentors have posted about), I'm looking into fixing up this code and keeping in on GitHub. If anybody would like to join me and one other person right now, feel free to. We'll possibly add jokes into the comments along the way and hopefully make things quite a bit more understandable. ...
Before you take a single additional step along this path, I suggest you contact someone at WPI who has been a part of developing and maintaining that repository for the last several years. That probably means you should contact one of the WPI faculty members who works closely with the code base, and the FIRST community.

When you find the right person, I am optimistic that they will describe more than one way you can helpfully integrate your talents, ideas, and outputs into the many hundreds (thousands?) of hours of effort represented by the current code.

Being successful might require a bigger and more complex undertaking than you are envisioning right now.

Blake
PS: In those threads where others have posted about "bad code", wise readers will have noticed that other, well-founded opinions were expressed, and will have noticed that evaluating code quality from more than one perspective is valuable.
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