Haha, nothing would make me happier than if this catches on! Equally so if it just became an ASWF catchphrase, not the whole OSS world, I'm not that greedy. :-)
And by the way, Danny Greenstein wins the prize for picking the winning entry for which fish to use! > On Jun 7, 2023, at 8:44 PM, Noah Rahm <correctsyn...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > 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! > > 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! > > > -- > Larry Gritz > l...@imageworks.com > <mailto:l...@imageworks.com>_______________________________________________ > Oiio-dev mailing list > Oiio-dev@lists.openimageio.org <mailto:Oiio-dev@lists.openimageio.org> > http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org > _______________________________________________ > Oiio-dev mailing list > Oiio-dev@lists.openimageio.org > http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org -- Larry Gritz l...@larrygritz.com
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