Gavin Andresen [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-08-10 🗒️ Summary of this message: A developer is ...
📅 Original date posted:2011-08-10
🗒️ Summary of this message: A developer is discouraged from joining a project due to the rejection of proposed changes. The project needs more testers and bug fixers.
📝 Original message:> To be honest I feel a bit like every change that I (and I've also heard this
> from others) propose is shot down, no matter how well formulated. This is
> actively discouraging developers from joining this project.
Well, to be honest I don't think more developers adding new features
are needed right now-- I think the project's critical needs are more
people testing and helping to fix bugs and scalability issues.
In this particular case, I said I was mildly against it-- if you want
me to switch to supporting it, then reassure me you're willing to do
ALL the work to make it happen. Send me a list of wiki pages you'll
edit to document the change and tell me that you'll be around to help
people rewrite their backup scripts.
> I think it would be better to switch to two branches, like most other open
> source projects I've worked with.
I don't see how dividing efforts between a 'bug fix' and 'development'
branch will help fix the project's critical needs. If we did, I think
there would be less pressure to help with the boring bug-fixing and
testing of the bug-fix branch, which I think would be bad.
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Gavin Andresen
🗒️ Summary of this message: A developer is discouraged from joining a project due to the rejection of proposed changes. The project needs more testers and bug fixers.
📝 Original message:> To be honest I feel a bit like every change that I (and I've also heard this
> from others) propose is shot down, no matter how well formulated. This is
> actively discouraging developers from joining this project.
Well, to be honest I don't think more developers adding new features
are needed right now-- I think the project's critical needs are more
people testing and helping to fix bugs and scalability issues.
In this particular case, I said I was mildly against it-- if you want
me to switch to supporting it, then reassure me you're willing to do
ALL the work to make it happen. Send me a list of wiki pages you'll
edit to document the change and tell me that you'll be around to help
people rewrite their backup scripts.
> I think it would be better to switch to two branches, like most other open
> source projects I've worked with.
I don't see how dividing efforts between a 'bug fix' and 'development'
branch will help fix the project's critical needs. If we did, I think
there would be less pressure to help with the boring bug-fixing and
testing of the bug-fix branch, which I think would be bad.
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Gavin Andresen