Elliotte Rusty Harold Friday, April 21, 7:23 AM The more idiosyncratic a development<br>process is, the more likely potential contributors are to bounce off<br>the project and look elsewhere. True enough. Though good documentation can make up for some of that.
The question is, what are folks finding most confusing/difficult, and is it something we can fix? Open Jira items for that, size, and prioritize appropriately? -- /_ Joe Kesselman (he/him/his) -/ _) My Alexa skill for New Music/New Sounds fans: / https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WJ3H657/ () Plaintext Ribbon Campaign /\ Stamp out HTML mail! ________________________________ From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org> Sent: Friday, April 21, 2023 7:21:47 AM To: dev@xalan.apache.org <dev@xalan.apache.org> Subject: The Curse of Knowledge as applied to open source projects This article about Qt is worth a read: https://kelteseth.com/post/20-04-2023-current-issues-with-the-qt-project-from-the-outside-looking-in/ Parts of this will sound very familiar to anyone who's tried to contribute to Xalan, or indeed most Apache projects. While some of the issues Qt has involve being maintained by a for-profit company, the rest of it is quite applicable. The more idiosyncratic a development process is, the more likely potential contributors are to bounce off the project and look elsewhere. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elh...@ibiblio.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@xalan.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@xalan.apache.org
