Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Robert Kaiser wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
It's a fine line to walk when lobbying for change -- you have to push
hard enough, but not too hard, give credit, but not too much credit,
and
so forth.
Right, but when people place you as the destructor of SeaMonkey, and
tell you that your only goal is to fight off users of the feature you
just helped to survive at all, then they put it way over the top.
Most people probably don't realize that e.g. without my work on them,
SeaMonkey 2.0 wouldn't have progress windows at all. The old ones
didn't work with the new download manager backend to which we were
switching in any case. Nobody else volunteered to write new progress
windows that work with the new one, so I did, and e.g. not having
other icons available, I just reused the ones we already had in use
in the newly written download manager window.
In any case, those people have driven me away enough that I won't
work on any improvements of the progress windows, even though I had a
few such improvements, including better icons, in work.
In my opinion you have over-solved the problem already, and I mean
that in a good way. You have done more than the minimum work to make
it useful, taken pride in your creation, etc. If the pride of
workmanship doesn't justify the time to improve further, don't.
Mm-hm.
If you're looking for appreciation, it's in the dictionary, between
apathy and asinine.
Well, that was really uncalled for. Bob may not be God, but he doesn't
deserve that.
Nobody in open source deserves that, but it's been true forever, that you get
damn little appreciation and lots of criticism from users. When I started with
DTSS, GECOS, and MULTICS programs in the mid 1960's I got complaints about the
output format. And that kind of user reaction continued through ISIS, and CP/M,
a Sys3, and BSD, and Xenix, and every damn place I've ever contributed code in
40+ years the users have whined complained far more than they have appreciated
the effort.
So while I can understand where he's coming from, I've been there and it's not
going to get better. If you want appreciation from people you make a video of a
drunk getting hit in the groin by something, post it on youtube, and dozens of
people will tell you how great it is and what a wonderful fellow you are.
If you want to know that you did something to make the world a better place,
then you contribute to FOSS. It is not the way to go if you want appreciation,
as I noted.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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