Comments for Myriam's blog http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:34:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 Comment on Show your Love on Valentine’s Day :) by blaster999 http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/02/show-your-love-on-valentines-day/comment-page-1/#comment-43 blaster999 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:59:34 +0000 http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/?p=167#comment-43 Actually, 14 February is a day when the first general purpose digital computer, the ENIAC, was completed, so this day is significant to all programmers, sysadmins and other computer-related people. Actually, 14 February is a day when the first general purpose digital computer, the ENIAC, was completed, so this day is significant to all programmers, sysadmins and other computer-related people.

]]> Comment on Show your Love on Valentine’s Day :) by Techplay http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/02/show-your-love-on-valentines-day/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Techplay Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:46:16 +0000 http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/?p=167#comment-42 LOL! noted your suggestions, let me find some 'opensource' people :) LOL! noted your suggestions, let me find some ‘opensource’ people :)

]]> Comment on In an ideal world… by Ped7g http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/01/in-an-ideal-world/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Ped7g Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:25:22 +0000 http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/?p=152#comment-38 I don't agree completely with you. Mind you, the developers and other participants are humans, with their tastes and moods. If you take a developer out from Hurd and put it down into (random pick from your favorite projects), you may end with additional manpower or with somebody mean just criticizing and leaving next week. Also people creating distributions, while very capable in this, may be not that skilled as application developers. So your idea of having half of projects to double the speed of development is purely theoretical. In reality I'm afraid the development speed of many projects would remain almost unchanged, except those in other half, which would be dead definitely. Also I don't think current problems of FOSS SW are result of underpowered teams. I think the current FOSS status very precisely depicts what is important for majority of users. You may feel the free BIOS and more stable core is more important (at least *I* would like that more then another wobbling window effect), but IMHO the way how current linux distributions looks is very accurate picture of what the community truly wants. Some people will have to swallow a bitter pill, but generally it's marvelous time, when you can belong to a marvelous community of FOSS people, even if you personally hope for something a little bit different. I don’t agree completely with you.
Mind you, the developers and other participants are humans, with their tastes and moods. If you take a developer out from Hurd and put it down into (random pick from your favorite projects), you may end with additional manpower or with somebody mean just criticizing and leaving next week.

Also people creating distributions, while very capable in this, may be not that skilled as application developers.

So your idea of having half of projects to double the speed of development is purely theoretical. In reality I’m afraid the development speed of many projects would remain almost unchanged, except those in other half, which would be dead definitely.
Also I don’t think current problems of FOSS SW are result of underpowered teams. I think the current FOSS status very precisely depicts what is important for majority of users. You may feel the free BIOS and more stable core is more important (at least *I* would like that more then another wobbling window effect), but IMHO the way how current linux distributions looks is very accurate picture of what the community truly wants. Some people will have to swallow a bitter pill, but generally it’s marvelous time, when you can belong to a marvelous community of FOSS people, even if you personally hope for something a little bit different.

]]> Comment on In an ideal world… by Crashit http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/01/in-an-ideal-world/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Crashit Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:38:38 +0000 http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/?p=152#comment-37 Should be easy to solve those duplicate bugreports. Just make some bugtracking system on the users computer that works :) If my Amarok crashes, I should only have to click once or twice to report the bug. When the bug is filed, it should automatically track bugreports of the same kind and categorise it. Such a program should solve the duplicate bugreports and make bugtracking and solving a lot easier... Should be easy to solve those duplicate bugreports. Just make some bugtracking system on the users computer that works :) If my Amarok crashes, I should only have to click once or twice to report the bug. When the bug is filed, it should automatically track bugreports of the same kind and categorise it.

Such a program should solve the duplicate bugreports and make bugtracking and solving a lot easier…

]]> Comment on In an ideal world… by Valorie Zimmerman http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/01/in-an-ideal-world/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Valorie Zimmerman Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:53:24 +0000 http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/?p=152#comment-33 Thanks for the shout-out, Myriam! I'm hoping that users step up and become contributors. Sure, we can always use more coders, but so much else is needed -- and we can all do something. To me, that's the heart of free and open software. Thanks for the shout-out, Myriam! I’m hoping that users step up and become contributors. Sure, we can always use more coders, but so much else is needed — and we can all do something.

To me, that’s the heart of free and open software.

]]> Comment on In an ideal world… by Justin Kirby http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/01/in-an-ideal-world/comment-page-1/#comment-31 Justin Kirby Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:46:37 +0000 http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/?p=152#comment-31 Great post! KDE definitely needs more triagers so they can spend their time fixing bugs instead of sifting through reports. This is also a great way for newer folks to get involved in their favorite projects. :) Great post! KDE definitely needs more triagers so they can spend their time fixing bugs instead of sifting through reports. This is also a great way for newer folks to get involved in their favorite projects. :)

]]> Comment on In an ideal world… by myriam http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/01/in-an-ideal-world/comment-page-1/#comment-30 myriam Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:39:26 +0000 http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/?p=152#comment-30 Hey, I am not talking about distributions, but about KDE and the software in and around it. So this is about upstream work, not downstream :) Hey, I am not talking about distributions, but about KDE and the software in and around it. So this is about upstream work, not downstream :)

]]> Comment on In an ideal world… by Vadim P. http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/01/in-an-ideal-world/comment-page-1/#comment-29 Vadim P. Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:03:24 +0000 http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/?p=152#comment-29 Would be glad to help but I don't use Amarok, and my free time is already overstreched on other FOSS projects. Default Ubuntus music player works great for me. Would be glad to help but I don’t use Amarok, and my free time is already overstreched on other FOSS projects. Default Ubuntus music player works great for me.

]]> Comment on In an ideal world… by ethana2 http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2010/01/in-an-ideal-world/comment-page-1/#comment-28 ethana2 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:35:13 +0000 http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/?p=152#comment-28 If we had half as many projects, the ones that we have would have twice the resources. If it weren't for GNU Hurd, CoreBoot would probably run on laptops by now (Hey, let's make a redundant Free kernel while everyone still suffers with their proprietary BIOS!). If everyone and their mom wasn't making their own distro, Application X, Y, and Z would probably have Ubuntu packages made at this point. We've forked ourselves out of an ideal world that we HAVE the resources to maintain. If we had half as many projects, the ones that we have would have twice the resources. If it weren’t for GNU Hurd, CoreBoot would probably run on laptops by now (Hey, let’s make a redundant Free kernel while everyone still suffers with their proprietary BIOS!). If everyone and their mom wasn’t making their own distro, Application X, Y, and Z would probably have Ubuntu packages made at this point.

We’ve forked ourselves out of an ideal world that we HAVE the resources to maintain.

]]> Comment on Travelling to Buğday? by Amarok Blog http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/2009/10/travelling-to-bugday/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Amarok Blog Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:14:52 +0000 http://blogs.fsfe.org/myriam/?p=136#comment-26 <strong>Phonon Bugday, join the fun!...</strong> Hello goodpeople, this is a quickreminder for all kdefriendly bug triagers and otherfolks. Ok, I'll stop with the strangetalk now... We are going to have a Phonon Bugday on the 8th of November, which is really quite soon, if you think abou... Phonon Bugday, join the fun!…

Hello goodpeople,

this is a quickreminder for all kdefriendly bug triagers and otherfolks. Ok, I’ll stop with the strangetalk now…

We are going to have a Phonon Bugday on the 8th of November, which is really quite soon, if you think abou…

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