Re: Commitfest problems

On 19/12/14 20:48, Andres Freund wrote:

On 2014-12-18 10:02:25 -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

I think a lot of hackers forget exactly how tender their egos are. Now I say
this knowing that a lot of them will go, "Oh give me a break" but as someone
who employs hackers, deals with open source AND normal people :P every
single day, I can tell you without a single inch of sarcasm that petting
egos is one of the ways you get things done in the open source (and really
any male dominated) community.

To me that's a bit over the top stereotyping.

+1

Having been mentioned one or two times myself - it was an unexpected "wow - cool" rather than a grumpy/fragile "I must be noticed" thing. I think some folk have forgotten the underlying principle of the open source community - it is about freely giving - time or code etc. The "there must be something in it for me me me" meme is - well - the *other* world view.

However, doing crappy work and let's not be shy about it, there is NOTHING
fun about reviewing someone else's code needs to have incentive.

FWIW, I don't agree with this at all. Reviewing code can be quite
interesting - with the one constraint that the problem the patch solves
needs to be somewhat interesting. The latter is what I think gets many
of the more experienced reviewers - lots of the patches just solve stuff
they don't care about.

Yeah, and also it helps if the patch addresses an area that you at least know *something* about - otherwise it is really hard to review in any useful way.

Cheers

Mark

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