[haiku-development] Re: Haiku R1A5 timelines?
- From: Stephan Aßmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 10:15:00 +0200
Hi,
Am 27.05.2014 01:20, schrieb Przemysław Pintal:
I could write about this for a long time, about my experiences, about
what plans and problems we had. I'm depressed.
Doing a release is just like any other task in the project: It needs
people with some time, enough motivation and the necessary skills. Even
changing the proecess of preparing a release is no different. It needs
people to do it.
So you can lament all day that there is no release and how it would
improve the publicity of the project... the real problem seems to be
that - right now - there are not enough people, not enough motivation
and not enough time. What do you want to do about that?
I know that with enough motiviation, it is possible even with a family,
to find some time after work for Haiku. Once in a while at least. The
only thing that motivates me enough these days is when there are others
pushing things forward already and I want to be part of the fun.
In the past, Haiku was extraordinarily lucky. First it was driven mainly
by students with enough time. Then there was Mindwork, it continued on
with other situations where important developers had enough time and
provided motivation for each other in some sort of feedback loop. The
biggest contributors had no kids. We had time for summer gatherings and
coding sprints. All that seems to have almost died down. In any case,
the past luckiness may be distorting the perception of the development
of the Haiku contributions over time.
In some ways, the project has grown to be a lot more powerful compared
to just a few years ago. We have enough donations flowing in now to more
or less pay one developer to work on Haiku almost full time. I find that
amazing and to me its a growth indicator. It could inspire the
motivation in more developers, and it sometimes does at least to me. At
the same time, I think there is overall a bit too little progress for my
taste. Maybe it's due to spending a lot of time on work that has not so
much immediately visible results like working on the WebKit test suit
and doing merges (which is important don't get me wrong). The weekly
reports are an excellent thing however.
Looking at it this way, I believe that at least Haiku Inc is doing what
it can to improve the situation. And the donors are as well.
What do you think, how can we motivate existing developers to spend
there little spare time more often on Haiku?
Best regards,
-Stephan
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