Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling
On 11 November 2014 19:43, Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> wrote:
> Le 11/11/2014 20:21, Don Armstrong a écrit :
>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Erwan David wrote:
>>> Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit :
>>>> When I (or someone else) asks people to "show us the code", it's
>>>> really just shorthand for "someone needs to do this work, and it
>>>> currently isn't important enough for me to do it."
>>> Asking to provide a patch to an utterly complex code is just
>>> [complete] [nonsense] and [hypocrisy]: one cannot patch any complex
>>> software without working on it for long hours.
>> While it might take less time for someone intimately familiar with a
>> piece of code to provide a patch, it still may take a lot of time for
>> them to provide the patch. The actual cost may be even higher even
>> though it takes less time, because writing a patch means that they're
>> not working on something else.
>>
>> It's the reality of Free Software that people work on things that they
>> want to work on. If something is important to you, but not important
>> enough for you to do it, then your next best alternative is to figure
>> out how you can best encourage someone else to do it for you. Calling
>> people hypocrites isn't a very effective way to do that.
>>
>>> And when the probleme is te basic design of the software a patch is
>>> not conceivable.
>> Then the solution is to become involved in the software design process.
>>
> Your email makes me me regretting contibuting by translating doc (a long
> time ago) otr contibuting bugs...
>
> This kind opf stance is completely full of contempt agains non coders.
> But coders are nothing if nobody uses or test.
>
>
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Hello All
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~halfak/publications/The_Rise_and_Decline/
Not directly applicable but food for thought.
Where are the volunteers coming from in Jessie+3 or Jessie+10 ?
'Onboarding' processes could be clearer.
cheers
--
Keith Burnett
http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/
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