2005/12/11, Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Dim 11 décembre 2005 11:55, M. Fioretti wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 11:11:00 AM +0100, Gianluca Turconi > > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > >> Same thing for Mozilla or Gnome, I think. > > > > Yes, of course the same problems in any big project. > > OO.o is competing with all the other foss projects for volunteers. > > That means that people who could contribute small fixes, detailled bug > reports/testing (which costs real money if you don't have a good beta > tester program), will do so for the projects who bother to answer them > quickly. > > And you may dismiss bug reports as "whining" but that's the stuff that > avoids you sinking years of development in features no one's interested in > (for example, the old staroffice "desktop") > > And sure you don't owe anything to these people, they owe you since the > work of writing the actual program is much higher than reporting a few > warts, but they owe many other projects not just yours and it's only human > they'll tend to contribute to the friendlier projects. > > That is, the projects where you actually see developpers on the public > lists, and can give them your opinion directly from time to time.
+1 I've contributed to the AWS (Ada Web Server). I wouldn't have done it without the extremely friendly developers there. And the low threshold - anonymous (read only) CVS ,code contribution through mail, and quick main branch inclusion - made it a perfect project to contribute to. Since I got interested in the big-xml-thrashing, I though I should download the code just to have a look at how the ZIP procedures were interfaced (which options are used). Locating the download page was not that easy. Needing CYGWIN to download raised the threshold. Needing the SSH-stuff raised it further (I've sent my public key to Issuezilla and is waiting for some response). I'm not sure it will work though, since the place were the key should be placed, did not exist (the default one that I was not supposed to change). I don't know if this is the end. But if I will be presented with a big EULA before the download - that is it. /$ > -- > Nicolas Mailhot > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
