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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> a big question is how to make it happen without just throwing |
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> complaints on the folks who are trying their best to keep it all going. |
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The answer to this is the same as it has always been: |
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Demonstrate that you are capable and reliable and given social |
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compatibility then after some time you too can become a part of |
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the team. |
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This is the way most open source projects, actually most human |
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projects work. Maintainers are not picked at random when there |
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is high load, but trusted long-time contributors are promoted |
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to maintainers when they shine. |
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The more you complain instead of send patches, the less likely you |
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are to ever become part of the solution. |
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The key point to remember is that it is NOT neccessary to be part of |
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the team in order to contribute solutions. You *first* contribute |
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solutions and only *then* have a chance of becoming part of the team. |
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I for one am working in my non-existant spare time on a fast |
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ChangeLog generator. |
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//Peter |
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