Here's my pseudo-anonymous answer :) My motivation goes down when i feel insignificant:
- when i don't get reviews - when a simple patch takes forever because every word is discussed over and over again - when i spend more time on maintenance (creating issues, searching for messages on two trackers+email, closing issues, pushing to staging) than actual work - when someone else could in half an hour do what i'm struggling to do since two days (but he simply doesn't have time) - when i spend more time reading emails and discussing things than actually doing something productive (this is pretty hard to solve: if we stopped reading email to focus on work, how would we discuss our patches?) Also, maintenance procrastination is a blow to my morale (this doesn't necessarily mean that Graham's doing something bad - it's just the fact that it doesn't get done). Hopefully, this should change with GOP. Finally, i think we lack a vision and common goal that would give us motivation boost. I find it quite surprising that Janek's articles in LilyPond Report #25 and #26 gathered little comments from experienced developers. hope this will help, DevH -- Colin Hall _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
