Schlagwort: Projekte

Wahnorgansinnation.

  • 2022-02-11

He was of an age where it was never possible to pursue one errand at a time. He must do many at once. He guessed that people who had lived right and arranged things properly must have it all rigged so that all of their quests ran in parallel, and reinforced and supported one another just so. They gained reputations as conjurors. Others found their errands running at cross purposes and were never able to do anything; they ended up seeming mad, or else perceived the futility of what they were doing and gave up, or turned to drink. Daniel was not yet certain which category he was in, but he suspected he’d find out soon enough.

Neal Stephenson: The System of the World

Less HOT, more ACDC.

  • 2022-01-21

Let's pause and summarize: our culture wants heroes and this leads us to expect maintainers to be superhackers and superactive hotlines. This is the HOT mindset of maintenance, where the maintainer is the Headmaster Of Tweaks and soon becomes the Headmaster Of Troubles.

To resist this HOT mindset, let's redefine maintenance as ACDC: Asynchronous Collective Distributed Care:

  • Asynchronous because time management is a private matter and we are all volunteers.
  • Collective because, well, no man is an island.
  • Distributed: the more power to the "edges", the more resilient the project is.
  • Care because this is all about care: with each other as users or as contributors, with the project's infrastructure (servers, websites, bug trackers, etc.) and care about having a useful product.

Bastien Guerry: How to help GNU Emacs maintainers?

Projektbesuche.

  • 2013-10-26

Es schien unmöglich sie zu besuchen ohne etwas gemeinsam zu unternehmen. Auch ohne Planung ergab sich stets ein Projekt für das jeweilige eindeutig zeitlich beschränkte Zusammentreffen. Die Freude über das Ergebnis vermischte sich daher mit der Gewissheit dass ein projektloses Zusammenleben unmöglich wäre.