2014-10-03 16:42 GMT-03:00 stepharo <steph...@free.fr>: >> You keep doing your great job, but accept that we, outside of the >> internal, core, revolutionary research being made, might have mundane >> necessities. That on the daily basis have more importance than a >> futuristic 128bit manycore vm that kicks JVM's ass :D > > But we even not working on that. JUST PLAIN BUGS.
Please grant me a small exaggeration (which was the case). > and if everybody would spend 1 hour per week reviewing and improving some > libraries then we would have more impact. I am. More and more as I'm getting used to the libraries and to the contribution process (which still is centralized). However you can't count with everybody contributing to make Pharo a success. It won't happen to Pharo, as it wont happen anywhere else. Wikipedia isn't a success because everybody contributes, it is a success because there is a dedicated/loyal group of contributors that accounts for 80% of the material published. Pareto principle end to end. > Still Pharo is yours not mine. Sorry, but as others said, I neither share that feeling. And I it isn't something negative to me. I feel part of the community, and as I publish fixes or minor improvements I begin to be part of the contributors. Only being part of the Association or Consortium is the only, reasonable way, of feeling that, and even so I can anticipate myself I won't feel that. >> Please consider than USING Pharo is a way to contribute to it. > yes but we are small and using is not enough Not enough, but don't disregard your users! Take the example mentioned above above Wikipedia. As the user base grows, the motivation for public contributions grows too. And also grows the funding. It's a virtuous circle. >> Even if you had infinite manpower but no one uses it, it would be >> worthless. > Give me 2 Millions Euros and you will see > that lot of people will come and use it. If I had it I'd totally give it, but unfortunately I don't have it. However I don't think it is only about that. Many ventures fail with even more money. With more resources, you would make Pharo better/awesome..., but money only don't create the market nor the demand. Even lobbyists need more money than that to gain traction. Best regards! Esteban A. Maringolo
