On Friday 21 November 2014 12.36:57 Henne Vogelsang wrote:
Hey,
On 20.11.2014 21:57, Roger Luedecke wrote:
Why
I can tell you why. It'll not be a nice thing to hear for most of us...
Why do your bug reports go unanswered? Because we don't have enough people to support the amount of packages we ship. Too much load onto too few shoulders. Package maintainers _have_ to pick their fights and they pick the ones they can win (easily). And no one feels responsible to help maintainers make the most of bugs.
Why is the wiki a mess? Because we don't have enough people maintaining it. Everyone just adds his 2¢s into it, no one makes sure the whole thing stays usable. People do the absolute necessary, next to no one goes the extra mile. No one feels responsible for taking care of 'functionality' wiki.
Why is our documentation often that bad? Like the Live_USB_stick article. Because everyone just adds whatever he just found out to it and never looks back. No one makes sure that this beast stays recent, readable, comprehensible. People just dump their ideas and run off. No one feels responsible.
Why do those paper-cut issues slip through? Because every one who does something for this distribution is neck deep in putting the open leg fractures in splints. The last 1% to 2% to make something perfect are the ones which are often hardest to do. Just because they are not obvious when your head is buried in the code. You have to have your mind free for this, which is very hard if the next open leg fracture just waits around the corner....
Why is our "marketing" often not to the point? If you simplify there are 2 big things we do each year: Releasing a new version of the distribution and running a conference. We even struggle to get the most basic announcements for those together. Simply because there are not enough people feeling responsible for it.
Why don't we add tons of 'easy' features to our distribution? Why is our infrastructure outdated and largely unmaintained?
Why? The answer is always the same: It's too much to do for not enough people.
This has been a spiral for years now. We have too much on our plate. That's why we struggle to do even do the basics for everything. That's why nothing is very polished. That's why next to no new people join and a lot of people leave.
Sad but true.
Henne
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