A bit more SocialText
I earlier gave some code to SocialText folks, who in turn had an NEC guy review it. Extra set of eyes always help, even when a reviewer is from a different background of programming. Among what he came back with were a handful of good comments and suggestions.
I ended up rewriting a small portion of the code, which I did not mind at all. Integrating the result into their build infrastructure turned out to be a bit cumbersome for me (not that their infrastructure is bad in any way; just I am not familiar with it), but they offered to just take the patch from me and do the integration themselves.
Which was very nice of them. It obviously is the right thing for both of us (after all, it's their build infrastructure and it would be trivial for them, than for me to learn the subtleties of it while keeping them waiting) from technical point of view, but I haven't seen that kind of "you'll help us there, we'll help you in the areas where we are more familiar with" in business settings. I always seem to hear that "we asked you to do all of that, so please follow through all the way to the integration step, we don't do your work". Not with SocialText folks. Very nice.
I ended up rewriting a small portion of the code, which I did not mind at all. Integrating the result into their build infrastructure turned out to be a bit cumbersome for me (not that their infrastructure is bad in any way; just I am not familiar with it), but they offered to just take the patch from me and do the integration themselves.
Which was very nice of them. It obviously is the right thing for both of us (after all, it's their build infrastructure and it would be trivial for them, than for me to learn the subtleties of it while keeping them waiting) from technical point of view, but I haven't seen that kind of "you'll help us there, we'll help you in the areas where we are more familiar with" in business settings. I always seem to hear that "we asked you to do all of that, so please follow through all the way to the integration step, we don't do your work". Not with SocialText folks. Very nice.
