- tres.finocchi...@gmail.com
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Vesa <dii....@nbl.fi> wrote:
> On 11/17/2014 11:34 PM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote:
>
> > Bit of exaggeration there... I'm not really even a programmer, just a
>> problem solver.
>
>
> I'm not sure your definition, but in my definition... yes, yes you are.
> :)
>
>
> Well, a hobbyist programmer maybe. But I don't have any kind of education,
> formal or otherwise, in software design, computer science, or anything like
> that. The point is that we'd really need at least one person who really has
> some professional skill as a programmer... I mean, I can hack some code but
> I at the same time I barely know how to use a debugger...
>
> Ok, some real talk here... it's important to know your strengths and
> weaknesses. So the thing is, my brain doesn't really work in a normal way,
> which is both an advantage and a disadvantage. I don't like to brag, but
> I'm pretty good at figuring things out, I usually learn things very fast,
> so I can just sort of jump into something and usually figure out how things
> work as I go. The flipside of that is that for me it's very hard to
> maintain focus on something for long. I get distracted easily. My thought
> process tends to go all over the place and I get interested in tons of new
> things constantly, which I then get sort of this obsessive need to figure
> out... it'd be cool if I could just focus on one thing and become great in
> that one thing, but I think my brain just doesn't work that way...
>
> So, to balance out that chaos, a balancing influence is needed, someone or
> someones who are more on the practical side, who have the experience and
> the knowhow, who know how to make things work and who can sort through my
> crackpot ideas and say "ok, here's how we make this work" or conversely,
> "ok, this thing isn't going to work" if it's needed. At the same time, we
> also need the expertise on writing RT-safe code, which, even though I'm
> trying to learn about it, is something that is still pretty much black
> magic to me...
>
> Does this make sense to you?
>
When the code we author is download 1,000 times a day, it makes us -- not
only programmers, but -- useful and relevant programmers.
I see a lot of people/organizations code with much larger teams for many
less people and the quality is much poorer, so in my opinion, there's
really no question as to the title "programmer" with certain individuals on
this team :). Furthermore, our choice to choose what interests us --
versus what benefits the project -- is a balancing act, and luckily in this
landscape, we're free to choose what we work on and there are often mutual
benefits in taking either direction.
However, when we talk about the bigger picture... moving forward...
identifying that need requires at least the fundamental understanding of
high level design changes, and there only are few people on this earth that
truly understand the implications of a design change to LMMS. There are
even fewer that are active on the dev team that understand that change.
Black magic to one person may be an unfathomable mythical beast to the next.
it'd be cool if I could just focus on one thing and become great in that
> one thing, but I think my brain just doesn't work that way...
We've had some serious focuses in recent history... namely the new theme,
new versioning, new repo, new logo, new site. I don't think it is fair to
sell ourselves short of this task. The only problem I see (which everyone
seems to think is not a problem) is money. So, let's farm that one task
off. We can and will do the rest. We've already tackled much larger
projects.
Jonathan... you're one of the ones that said too much money isn't a
problem.... Will you please take over as our money recipient for this
project? The only other duty would be designated payer to our developer.
We can and will do the rest
-Tres
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