Now look.. you made me hungry...:)
Good idea. Doing this may just become a viral trend in the OSS world...;)
-Noah
On Wednesday, June 7, 2023 at 10:28:28 PM CDT, Larry Gritz
<l...@imageworks.com> wrote:
Across the various communications channels (GH issues, oiio-dev mail list, and
now the #openimageio channel on the ASWF Slack), there are a lot of messages
that request answers, fixes, or enhancements, and I'm trying hard to wean
myself off of the temptation to handle them all myself, and instead I want to
say the following:
I could handle this request, but so could other people. I swear I don't have
any special knowledge or skills that make me the only one, or even the best
one. Individually it might make sense for me to quickly answer/fix/implement
this, but I certainly don't have the time to handle all such requests, and even
if I did, it would displace other tasks for which I really am the only
appropriate person. Furthermore, my doing it would rob somebody else of the
chance to grow into a more knowledgeable contributor to OpenImageIO, and that's
bad for the project. You all know the adage about giving someone a fish versus
teaching them to fish.
So please, somebody, stretch a little, and try to catch this fish. People on
the TSC, people who would like to expand their contributions, people who are
first-timers. I'm still here to coach you and answer questions, to review code,
and to bounce ideas off of. It will help the project and its users immensely to
spread the knowledge and the responsibility around.
But boy, that's a mouthful. It's tedious to write that constantly, and you
don't want to read it. So I wanted to find a playful shorthand that we'll all
understand, and here it is:
🎣 Mackerel!Â
By the way, it *doesn't* mean the person filing the issue or asking the
question should fix it themselves. It means, hey, you other onlooker who has
OIIO knowledge, I'm talking to you! Think to yourself, "I know the answer" or
"I could figure out how to solve this," and be the hero we need today!Â
--
Larry Gritz
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