Michael Wechner schrieb:
Andreas Hartmann schrieb:
Hi Lenya devs,
here's an entertaining essay on different open source contribution
styles by a Drupal developer, including some guidelines:
http://webchick.net/embrace-the-chaos
and what is your opnion about it? Or in particular do think Lenya devs
> need to change their habits?
The article, and especially the discussion, nicely illustrates some
dynamics from the point of view of newbie and casual contributors which
I'm not always aware of. Especially in consideration of the current
contribution discussion on the user list, it might be worth thinking
about our review processes and habits.
After reading the article, I have the impression that the Drupal
community manages to encourage a lot of users to submit patches via the
issue tracker. I have the feeling that many Lenya contributors aren't
motivated enough to submit patches. There are several potential reasons:
* It is too complicated to get familiar with the product, therefore they
don't even try to implement bugfixes or improvements.
* They implement patches, but think that
* nobody else would be interested in them.
* the quality of the patches is not sufficient.
* nobody will take the time to review and commit them.
Is this correct? Are there other reasons?
Another issue:
We had a couple of situations of the "Perfectionist Pat" type. I also
tend to use this approach. I have the feeling that the main reason is
that if I'm not sure something will work, I tend to do some prototyping
before suggesting the change. When I have developed the prototype to a
reasonable state, the code is already too complex for others to review
in a couple of minutes. This is certainly something I have to be aware
of and I have to try to avoid.
Another reason for the "Perfectionist Pat" situations is IMO a lack of
activity in our community when it comes to development discussions.
Maybe too many of the past discussions have ended without a solution, so
that people aren't motivated to post any proposals or RTs now – at least
this applies to me. Is there anything we can do about this?
What do the others think?
-- Andreas
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Andreas Hartmann, CTO
BeCompany GmbH
http://www.becompany.ch
Tel.: +41 (0) 43 818 57 01
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