On Apr 25, 2012, at 11:45 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote: > Hi all, > > My contributions to Fink can take a significant amount of time. It's not > unusual to have to spend the better part of a day trying to get some tricky > package to build correctly, especially one that needs patching. Yet I see > more than a few contributors here who maintain far more packages than I do > and have been involved with the project for years. It's as if Fink is their > full-time job. I'm curious... Where do you guys find the time to contribute? > Are you simply a very dedicated bunch of volunteers, or are you funded in > some way? (I've heard of companies paying people to contribute to Linux, for > example, but I didn't think Fink was on the same level.) > > Trevor >
I don't think anyone is funded to do fink work. And the active maintainers are a dedicated group of volunteers. The group changes over time, and as work and/or family responsibilities demand more time, fink does take a back seat. And the core group is just very good. They can do stuff in 10 minutes that takes me a day and a half to figure out (with their help). I can do a few very narrow tasks pretty well these days. And it saves them a little bit of time sometimes. I find time because it's interesting, and I figure I still owe a whole bunch of people for all the help they gave me through the years with community software of one sort or another. Dave -- David Reiser dbrei...@earthlink.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
