On Tuesday, May 08, 2012, Holger Marzen wrote: > If he has to work 70 hours a week behind the steering wheel of his truck > then he needs support. But who can help him?
I want to point out that while the hours I have to spend working do have a negative influence on my ability to get things done around here, the far larger problem is there just isn't anyone working here that I can assign jobs to with some expectation of them getting done. We have developers, but the way it works now is somebody shows up and says what they're going to do, and they do it throughly and well. They're doing excellent, useful work, but they don't work on other, random stuff that comes along the way. If I get a bug report about the audio previews being broken, I have one developer I can assign that bug to, and that developer is me. I don't know how to fix the audio previews, or I would. I have no earthly idea how that code even works. I don't have the foggiest idea how most of this code works, which is why I always worked on mostly superficial, light duty type stuff back when I was part of a large and active team. I am a mere custodian, a floor sweeper who has inherited the job of keeping an entire great and complicated factory running. I'm a passenger trying to fly an airplane, or sail a ship, or run a steam locomotive. I'm a finish carpenter trying to wire and plumb and frame and roof a house. I'm a little boy trying to be the man of the house because Daddy went away. I have some limited aptitude for such things, and I'm not completely ineffective, but the only reason I'm even qualified to work here is because I was in here sweeping the floor when everybody else disappeared. If I could just move on myself, it would be so much easier, but I don't want to abandon the ship until the last of it finally sinks below the water. At this rate, who knows how long that will be. The engine is dead, but we've got a sail that catches a breeze from time to time, and the bilge pumps are still working, though at reduced capacity. Progress is slow, but there is still progress. Quite a lot of work went into the 12.04 release I'm about to publish. Yes, I'm incredibly gloomy and depressed, and I make no apology for that. Me being gloomy isn't what's killing Rosegarden. I'm gloomy because Rosegarden is barely alive, and it's dying in my hands. I've been administering CPR to this project for years, and it's less and less effective as time goes by. I have failed. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
