+1 We have become throwers-away rather than fixers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgJ-Wd9hGy8
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 11:25, Roger Heflin <rogerhef...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think it is simple, in my experience your assertions are right on > the money. They can't be bothered to learn it and/or they aren't good > enough to learn it. If it is difficult for them to learn and/or they > cannot learn it then they are doomed to failure on the re-write as > they simply aren't good enough developers to redo it . Act like a > developer: when your car runs badly, just melt it down and rebuild it > from scratch, that must be easier than understanding how it is broken > and fixing it. > > Not sure how one believes if they cannot debug the last script/program > they wrote (or someone else did) that the new script/program will be > any different. Developers seems to believe that all previous authors > were incompetent and did things for no good reason and that they can > do a significantly better job this time so want to start over. Too > many people have told me that unlike the past team that failed using a > given process,this time we are going to do it the exact same way but > we are going to be perfect and not have the same issues and not fail. > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:04 AM Tim via users > <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 08:46 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > > > One of the motivations for Wayland was that the X.Org was becoming > > > unmaintainable and suffered from design choices that are no longer > > > relevant. > > > > Is it really unmaintainable, or is it that programmers just cannot be > > arsed to learn how to maintain someone else's code? > > > > And how does one person determine that some features are no-longer > > needed? It's quite clear that in several years of Wayland being around > > that various features needed by people using X have yet to be > > implemented. > > > > This whole idea of "I can't work on this, let's throw it all out and > > start again" is just incompetence. And you'll find several OS projects > > that have spent many years, repeatedly going through that process and > > never actually coming to any fruition because of it. > > > > Don't let those people near the kernel code. > > > > -- > > > > uname -rsvp > > Linux 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Aug 25 17:23:54 UTC 2020 > x86_64 > > > > Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. > > I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stephen E. Perkins, RN Poetry and Community Health RuralTechnologies.net Linux since Red Hat 5.1, 1998 Open-source Collaboration Fedora since 2003 “No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up.” - Lily Tomlin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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