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SearchableGrailsDomainClassCompassClassMapperFactoryFactory

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6 pointsneilellis2 comments

OK, so I get that this patch is a joke, but I don't use Grails (or Ruby, or Groovy, or Rails) so I can't tell if this entire project is supposed to be a joke or not. It was merged in, and there was already a SearchableGrailsDomainClassCompassClassMapperFactory in the codebase, so I'm guessing yes? But a lot of the commits don't really seem like jokes...

The SearchableGrailsDomainClassCompassClassMapperFactory doesn't look like a joke, only the ...FactoryFactory. I'm guessing this class was chosen because it's the longest name in the Grails codebase. In fact, if you prepend the package name, you get:

grails.plugin.searchable.internal.compass.mapping.SearchableGrailsDomainClassCompassClassMapperFactory

which is even more ridiculously lengthy.

The generated comment "graemerocher merged 1 commit into gpc:master from CounterPillow:factoryfactory 7 hours ago" probably reveals that the nominal project manager just merges in everything without checking it properly, relying on his underlings to do all the real work. The real purpose of the request could have been to expose this.

> I don't use Grails (or Ruby, or Groovy, or Rails) so I can't tell if this entire project is supposed to be a joke or not

I don't think Grails was intended to be a joke project, but a real way to skim consulting fees away from Rails development. Recently, VMWare retrenched all its 6 programmers working on Groovy and Grails development, not even selling the business so I guess they valued it all as a cost center. So far 4 Grails developers have formed a consultancy at OCI, all strictly consulting only, with no probono work on improving the product. It could be the Grails project manager arranged a backroom deal between VMWare and OCI for transfer of the Grails consultants, with the retrenchment being a smokescreen to ditch the Groovy maintenance programmers -- I wouldn't put something like that past them based on their past behavior.

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