On Jun 29, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Scott Bussinger wrote: > >> I, as a Trac developer, do not care if the end user sees something >> branded "Trac" or something branded "Super-Mega-Enterprise Project >> Awesomeness X9". I will just keep working on Trac as I always do. > >> If you are looking for glory and fame, FOSS really is >> not the right place to do it. > > Agreed. There can be some positive benefits to individuals from > working on FOSS when it comes to future jobs or contracts. But mostly > it's just a work of "love". My wholehearted thanks go out to you and > the rest of the Trac team for the efforts you put into it. I > contributed a lot of time to the programming community in the old days > (pre-internet), but drifted away from it as life got hectic. One of my > personal goals is to actively head back the other direction again. I'd > like to contribute to the Trac project in the future, but the > development stack (python with a bit of emphasis on linux/apache) is > not an area where I do any other programming so my skills aren't much > help here. I am thinking I can help with documentation a bit though.
Not sure where you got that idea, we place no emphasis on any particular platform. > >> gets the tools I make into the hands of >> developers, my mission has been accomplished. > > I have no idea what the Trac download stats are, but wouldn't it be > more gratifying to have your efforts in the hands of a hundred > thousand developers than in the hands of a hundred developers? Browse > around on SourceForge and you'll find lots of interesting projects > that are dying for lack of an audience. Lack of audience means fewer > developers willing to spend time on the project. Fewer developers > means a project that's more likely to wilt away. No, not really. I like what I do, and I know it is good work. I don't need big numbers to justify it to myself. Any developer that doesn't work on a FOSS project because it has a small userbase isn't cut out for the FOSS world IMO. I don't disagree that it takes a certain kind of developer to survive the wiles of open source, but I don't think this can or should be changed. --Noah --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
