On Wed, 2002-04-24 at 08:03, louie peabody ximian com wrote: <snip> > 2) I forgot one item in this list: I know there is a sense of burnout > among some people in the community, but what I'm seeing in the numbers > and on the lists is increased interest in 2.0 and increased rates of > bug-fixing. Hell, even nautilus is getting random people spontaneously Fixing bugs is quite fun... Porting apps is a PITA when you've already done it quite a number of times. Especially when nobody is helping out. The games contain all the same things to port and it's pretty damn boring. The other persons hacking on gnome-games ported GNect, jrb takes care of aisleriot, but nobody else is doing porting. > picking bugs and fixing them :) If we really are building momentum, it > seems like we should be capitalizing on that and standing firm on our > quality goals, not giving in and cutting things just as (from where I > stand) things are getting good from an involvement perspective. I for Well, I, for one, am losing momentum. Lack of feedback, general porting boredom, and it's not like Gnome is putting any bread on my table. > one find it exciting to be involved in something moving rapidly > towards kicking much ass and I think other people are beginning to > feel that way too. Compromising on quality seems to me like a very > quick way to damage that excitement and momentum. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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