-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, 2009-12-06 at 18:59 +0100, Egbert Eich wrote:
On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 01:23:53PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Well, plain users can only complain >:-P
My point is that it is not completely true to assume that plain users can take over maintenance or developing. We can't. I know I can't, even tough I said that once I did programming for a living.
(The learning curve is too steep as to be discouraging...)
No, I don't think so. There is always an area where one can get into. You don't have to be able to overlook all technologies in the entire product. Nobody does - I certainly don't.
Even knowing what function to use to do something, of what is the proper way to do things, is overtly difficult. I have read technical discussions on mail lists that using such obscure function to do something was dumbassed instead of using some other function even more obscure! No, thanks... too complex. I don't have energy left to learn those tricks, this dog is feeling too old. I once read a book, that SuSE put in the /usr/share/docsomething directory, about programming in linux. It was never finished. And it is obsolete, linux moves too fast. If anyone wants to encourage new devs to come to linux, and not only young students out of school or university, such texts must be finished and provided.
Most people who got involved in free software because they had a scratch to itch. Something that bothered them so much that they had to do something about it. So either there is nothing that pesters people enough to become involved themselves or ranting has been such a successful strategy that they did not have to bother. I don't expect this to be true forever.
Carlos, this is not against you, and I certainly don't expect everybody who uses free software to also contribute. But the notion 'it is too difficult anyway' is something that keep people from even trying.
I contribute, but not with coding. (even though I some code of my own running in this computer...) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkscVqEACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VXsQCcCb9ZBeHCMl5p3xg6rmtpb995 jeoAn1uxqoynK7C/Uf8Swa974g0YU0Cr =Bsxd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org