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Patrick Lauer posted on Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:44:38 +0200 as excerpted: |
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> On 04/04/10 03:48, Joshua Saddler wrote: |
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>> On Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:16:32 +0200 |
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>> Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> - Our formerly outstanding documentation still is somewhat maintained, |
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>>> but that's it. I haven't seen any new additions (both to our docs, but |
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>>> also to our docs-team) for years. People are constantly asking for a |
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>>> documentation wiki, but ... |
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>> Thanks for sh**ting on my efforts. There are lots of visible changes, |
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>> and I make a point of getting the word out when a new guide turns up in |
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>> /doc/. |
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>> Oh yes, and I spend hours each week constantly updating docs based on |
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>> the inflow of bugs, forum reports, and I constantly re-read each one |
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>> and improve stuff where I can on-the-fly. |
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> See, that's the problem. |
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> *You* are doing a good job. *We* as a team/community/ant colony aren't. |
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> The visible rate of change has slowed down, and from your reply I get |
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> the feeling that there are also fewer people working on docs than in the |
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> past. So how do we improve the situation? What needs to be done so that |
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> you could disappear for a month or two without affecting progress |
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> because there are enough other motivated people sharing the workload? |
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> My long-term goal is still to make me redundant. That way I can take a |
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> break whenever I get frustrated and I can focus on new things whenever I |
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> find something new and shiny to attract my attention... |
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Patrick's right, Nightmorph. I believe pretty much everyone here will |
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agree that you carry a pretty heavy load, almost a super-human load for |
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one person. But I've noticed in replies before as well as this one, you |
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do seem to be getting burned out. Which is only to be expected given that |
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you ARE handling docs pretty much by yourself a lot of the time. |
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And I know you've asked for help, and didn't get it, a couple times as |
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well. So you solder on... more and more frustrated and burnt out, but |
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afraid to stop, because after all, all of Gentoo's depending on you, and |
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it /does/ feel good to have users say how well things went, using the docs |
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you've been maintaining... but you're still burning out. |
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The same thing more or less happened to Jakob. There were similar signs |
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of stress, but Gentoo /was/ relying on him, and all the work he did bug- |
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wrangling. Then one day he pretty much dropped off the face of the |
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earth... or so it seemed. |
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It shouldn't have to be that way. You do a great job; a super-human job |
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for one person. But you ARE just one person and unfortunately you AREN'T |
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superhuman! It's catching up with you, and I know I'm not the only one |
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concerned about it. It's unhealthy for both you and Gentoo. |
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So don't take this the wrong way and drive off the folks trying to help. |
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Maybe, just maybe, this time you'll some of the help you asked for a year |
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or whatever it was ago. |
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Meanwhile, some of us really /do/ appreciate all you've done to hold down |
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the fort, so to speak. I'm sure I don't know the half of it when I say |
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it's not been easy, and that I (and apparently others here) /do/ |
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appreciate and recognized the almost super-human job you've been doing, |
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unfortunately, all too often pretty much single handedly. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |