IRC Traffic

     After returning from school, I was able to connect to the Banshee IRC channel and listen to the traffic that was incoming. When I logged in there wasn't any traffic except for people joining the channel as well as leaving the channel. But there was some traffic last night that was still on the chat board. It was between two users possibly about resolving some bug in the Banshee software. One user mentioned something about cargo-culting a setup file for something on the order of a thousand lines and the other user was impressed by how much that user put into the possible problem. Now, I was not familiar with the term of cargo-culting so I did a little search into the world of Google and found that it is a style of programming, but it really isn't the best style to use. From what I read it is a way of plugging code into a piece of software that does not serve any real purpose for that software. Apparently this tends to happen when someone who does not understand the code or the bug at hand. They pop in a piece of code just to see if it will fix the problem. This user apparently did this with a huge setup file which to me seems to be a very bad and ineffective way to fix a problem. Of course when it comes to open source projects, with different co-developers comes different methods which can be very good of a piece of software.