On 11 November 2014 19:43, Erwan David <er...@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. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/546266ee.4070...@rail.eu.org >
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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAA6tw_HhdJUQnvYy2b0-K7Hihc2P_oH=yzuhsyrzdw1ds3p...@mail.gmail.com