Re: [Lmuse-developer] IMPORTANT: release planning and muse's future

[Luis G. <lui...@us...>]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Florian Jung <flo...@we...> wrote:

Florian, I would be terribly disappointed if one single member of this
list didn't share your frustration about the fact that no more people
are in the position to altruistically dedicate time, resources and
hard-won knowledge to the development of the FOSS community.

> the people which are writing on the muse-dev ML, but not committing: why
> not? simply start getting your hands dirty. if you find a bug, don't

Well, in the end it all boils down to lack of time and many different
priorities in life. Everything gets progressively more complicated as
you have to pay your bills, cater to a family, etc. How do you cope
with that?

> offer some "muse handbook", which explains how the core of muse works.
> parts, partlists, eventlists, clones, and whatnot.

That would be grand, I know I would feel myself much more willing to
get my hands dirty on any given project if it didn't imply
reverse-engineering undocumented code. Doxygen is a great way to
maintain a developer's manual, but it requires extra effort and
discipline from people who are already short of time as it is. In that
respect LinuxSampler is a great example to follow, very well designed
and very thoroughly doxygen'd. I am greatly surprised that no more
devs are willing to contribute to LS, perhaps because of that stupid
licensing issue.

Perhaps you don't realize yet how scarce and precious are the people
that can contribute significantly to a FOSS project? It is greatly
appreciated that you are one of those, and you should indeed feel
proud of it. We all know where you are coming from, but beware of
frustration leading you to feel entitled to tell other people what
they should do with their time, things are already hard without
lashing out at fellow developers who do as best as they can.

Thanks, and cheers!

Luis