On Mon, 21 Nov 2022, 13:34 Jean Abou Samra, <j...@abou-samra.fr> wrote:
> > build problems are fixed by developers, not users, sometimes very > painfully, and using time that they could spend on other tasks. > If Werner's change breaks the build, surely he'll be the first one to argue it's on him to fix it (possibly with help to learn how tonfix whatever he doesn't know how to fix), no? Besides, you can always spend time on other tasks, but sometimes you do fun things and sometimes you do chores, that's just life, isn't it... Entropy is a problem, especially in software, and this kind of upgrade and tidy-up activity is more on the chore side. This is why we all tend to do this when there is also some more material benefit, to sweeten the boredom of the chore side of it... And to what Wols said: I agree completely, it should be _all_ about the users, coding is an act of service, not self-gratification. The joy comes from making (other) humans happy, not compilers... L >
